Re: [xml] Correction for Tutorial Code

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:51:08PM +0000, niraj tolia wrote:
> So I was looking at the Tutorial Code 
> (http://www.xmlsoft.org/tutorial/index.html) and saw that it leaks memory. I 
> was wondering if this could be fixed as it is entirely non-clear to first 
> time users of libxml as to what the semantics of functions like 
> xmlNodeListGetString() are. The sample code (eg 
> http://www.xmlsoft.org/tutorial/apb.html) makes it look like the function 
> simply returns a pointer to a string.
>
> However you need to go through the API to find out that the function 
> actually allocates memory that the caller needs to free. I would appreciate 
> it if an xmlFree() was put in there. The same applies for calls such as 
> xmlGetProp().

Thanks. I will try to fix this.

Could you do me a favor and file a bug report at bugzilla.gnome.org (the
product is libxml2 and the component is docs) so this doesn't get lost?

Cheers,
John