Re: [xml] libxml string handling

[Justin Fletcher <justin fletcher ntlworld com>]

In message <20020613050127 X3096 redhat com>
          Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> > a while ago, there ws a discussion about string handling in libxml (too many strdups).
> > what about this approach :
> >
> >  >>>>
> > from : http://www.redland.opensource.ac.uk/docs/api/objects.html
> >
> > It is often convienent to get a string representation of an object for
> > further processing, debugging or serialisation. There are two
> > conventions for methods that provide this functionality - the first is
> > when a pointer is returned to a shared copy of the string and in that
> > case the method ends _as_string. The second is when a pointer is
> > returned to a newly allocated string in which case the method ends
> > _to_string.
> > <<<<
>
>   That mean a complete API/ABI change. Could be looked at for libxml3
> if it ever get done, but in the meantime, this is unusable I'm afraid.

If anyone /really/ wants to deal with this sort of thing within the current
structure, they could still be handled through #define's. However, this
would purely be a convention for the xml2 users, rather than xml2 itself.

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