Re: [xml] avoiding unnecessary copying with xmlreader

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:48:52PM +0100, Graham Bennett wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 05:25:23AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Can you check the option of directly accessing the underlying temporary
> > node ? If this does not work, then extending the API is the only solution
> > I'm afraid, and not all existing xmlTextReaderPtr based API would be 
> > available without that string copy, sometimes the data doesn't exists as a 
> > already available string.
>
> Yep I'll try this approach.  I guess the downside is that it will make
> my code more sensitive to internal changes in the structure from release
> to release.

  Well that function is part of the API so I don't expect to change this.
And I don't expect to change the structure for nodes anytime soon either,
so it should not be considered "unstable", really.

Daniel

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