RE: [xml] When to call xmlInitParser() ?

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:01 PM
> To: robert
> Cc: Henke, Markus; 'xml gnome org'
> Subject: Re: [xml] When to call xmlInitParser() ?
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:45:42AM +0200, robert wrote:
> >  >> when i use libxml in a scenario where two or more different
> >  >> parserContext are created during the runtime of the 
> calling programm,
> >  >> have i to call xmlInitParser() only once or for each 
> parserContext?
> >  >I'm just wondering if my question is either too thumb or 
> too tough to
> >  >take note of!?  If first option fits, please forgive my 
> ignorance and
> >  >answer anyhow, i'll confess my shame if i should have hit 
> on it on my
> >  >own...  8)
> >
> > Sorry about that, sometimes we're all a bit busy :)
> >
> > To answer your question: you should only call xmlInitParser() once.
>
>   Actually it's not needed at all in most cases, the first 
> time parsing is
> done stuff is initialized when needed.
>
> > However, it doesn't hurt to call it multiple times (unless 
> you are running
> > in a multi-threaded environment, which you don't :), it 
> guards itself
> > against that.
>
>   Yes, unless you called xmlCleanupParser ()
> This is explained in http://xmlsoft.org/xmlmem.html#cleanup
>
> Daniel

Thank you, Daniel.
Defacto i havn't searched the doc of the memory-interface for that problem.
Silly me, cause that's a good point to search (if one have the right
perspective...  8)