Re: [xml] Setting a new DTD

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:19:53AM +0200, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> _impl->intSubset=NULL;
> xmlUnlinkNode((xmlNode*)dtd);
> xmlFreeDtd(dtd);
>
> This code works for me. But since this is the first time I hack on raw libxml 
> (I've been using libxml++ for some time) I wanted to know if its correct. I'm 
> not sure if it works in all cases, if I've got all the node linking right and 
> that there are no memory leaks.
>
> I would highly appreciate it if a libxml guru could take a look at it
> as I intend to commit this to libxml++.

  All the refernces to the items defined in the DTD like entities
will become dandling pointers to freed areas. Might work for a 
given application, but a very bad interface to expose in a library API.
Changing the strings in the DTD sounds safer, but probably don't
match what you expect. I would only allow this transformation as part
of a saving mechanism to avoid the broken references problem

Daniel

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