Re: [xml] xmlSplitQName2 problem and patch

["Aleksey Sanin" <aleksey aleksey com>]

But why does this function return NULL in this case?
Shouldn't it return the passed in string (in the same
way as xmlBuildQName() function does)? The current 
code returns NULL in error case too and this makes
a confusion (IMHO).


Aleksey

Daniel Veillard wrote on 2/18/2004, 1:28 AM:
>   No, it's really on purpose. The goal is to minimize string allocations, 
> if the argument passed is an NCName, then no new string will be allocated. 
> The client code might be slightly more complex as a result but string 
> allocations and freeing is really very costly, so I try to avoid it as 
> much as possible, that's why I designed the function that way.