Re: [xml] [Repost] Backwards compatibility and memory management...

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:04:39PM -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> But I am still confused about xmlNodeListGetString(), the example
> code (doc/example.html) hasn't changed and is quite unclear about
> who is responsable for the returned memory location.
>
> Am I correct to assume that "xmlNodeListGetString()" will always
> allocate a new string in memory that can safely be freed with "free()" ?
> (because this is what the example seems to assume, just seems strange to me)

  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlNodeListGetString
  Returns:      a pointer to the string copy, the caller must free it with xmlFree().

Daniel

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