Re: [xml] Thread safety question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 08:42:19AM -0800, Brent R. Matzelle wrote:
> One other question.  My program contains a DOM that creates new nodes
> pretty often which, given time, would make the DOM quite large.  I
> looked over the documentation for a xmlRemoveNode function but could
> only find an xmlRemoveProp.  Is there any efficient method to delete
> nodes from the DOM tree and free the allocated memory without
> re-creating the DOM without the unwanted node?

  Hum, in 2 operations yes:
    xmlUnlinkNode(xmlNodePtr) will extract the node/subtree from the tree
    xmlFreeNode(xmlNodePtr) will then free the node/subtree

Daniel

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