Re: [xml] Do xmlBuffers grow dynamically as needed?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 11:33:41AM +0200, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm new to libxml2 and trying to extract a document fragment using
> xmlNodeDump(). This function requires an xmlBufferPtr as one of its
> arguments. Will calling xmlNodeDump() automatically grow a previously
> xmlBufferCreate()ed xmlBuffer? If not, what are the alternatives?

  yes xmlBuffer(s) grow automatically as needed.
Alternative is to use an xmlOutputBufferPtr created with the callbacks needed
for your output and call xmlNodeDumpOutput() instead, this is useful
if you don't want the full document serialized in memory and stream
it out progressively.

Daniel

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