Re: [xml] Only through experimentation

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

Jose Commins wrote:
> On 2 Dec 2004, at 13:11, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:46:44AM +0000, Jose Commins wrote:
> >
> > >     Ok, how about "...  including nodes created separately (e.g. with
> > > xmlNewTextChild) that are linked to the document."
> >
> >
> >   no this just add confusion IMHO.
> >
> > >     I'm only mentioning this because I see that some are using
> > > xmlFreeNodeList et al when they don't have to :o)
> >
> >
> >   I don't think they do, otherwise you just segfault when you free
> > the document, fairly easy to spot !
> >
> > Daniel
>
>     Indeed, I get segfaults too - but as an example, a previous post on 
> this list from someone new to libxml had this:
[...]

Jose, I don't want to interrupt; just an info: this library is written
in C, it has no garbage collector, xmlNodes are neither
reference-counted by C nor by the lib; when you free the entire tree,
all references to any node within are invalid - instantly and
obviously. If this would be Delphi/Java and an xmlNode would be an
interface, your proposal would make sense.

Regards,

Kasimier