Re: [xml] [htmlParser] The right way to free a htmlParserCtxtPtr

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 06:46:16AM +0100, Emmanuel Saracco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering what is the most effective to free a htmlParserCtxtPtr.
> For the moment I do the following:
>
> -----
> htmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = NULL;
>
> ctxt = htmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt (buffer, strlen (buffer));
> htmlParseDocument (ctxt);
>
> htmlFreeParserCtxt (ctxt);
> -----

  that's fine.

> But browing the libxml2 source code I saw that there is a "htmlCtxtReset
> ()" that seems to really freeing all stuff (including "ctxt->myDoc").
> Should I call this function just before calling "htmlFreeParserCtxt ()"?

  This should be used only if you want to parse a collection of html
document with the same context, then the reset call should be used between
2 parses.

Daniel

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