Re: [xml] discuss. associating "Resolver" with XMLDocument or Stylesheet

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 05:10:02PM -0500, Brad Clements wrote:
> Could I use the ctx parameter in the Resolver to accomplish this some way? 

  you can try to set the _private field of the parsing context to some
of your resolver data, yes. No garantee, you need to try it out.

> Also, with respect to Python modules having to call freeDoc.. Should the Python API 
> handle reference counting, or was there a reason why "automatic" C object freeing was 
> not implemented?

  Far far far too complex w.r.t. the existing API to be made reliable.
I discarded it nearly immediately. It's better to *know* that the document
instance must be freed once done, than try to find why code is unreliable 
in a zillion of different cases. If you forget to free the doc you
have a predictable and hence easy to debug problem. If there is some
missed ref count hanling on access it's a nightmare. It's also impossible
to generate automatically. I will not change this even if I get patches.

Daniel

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