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

[Emmanuel Saracco <esaracco users labs libre-entreprise org>]

Le mardi 02 novembre 2004 à 03:52 -0500, Daniel Veillard a écrit :

Hi daniel,

[...]

> > -----
> > htmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = NULL;
> >
> > ctxt = htmlCreateMemoryParserCtxt (buffer, strlen (buffer));
> > htmlParseDocument (ctxt);
> >
> > htmlFreeParserCtxt (ctxt);
> > -----
>
>   that's fine.

Strange. I have a huge occupation of the memory using this. But it seems
to be ok when I use manually "xmlFreeDoc ()" on "ctxt->myDoc" after
calling "htmlFreeParserCtxt ()".

> > 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.

I have a segfault using that function instead of "htmlFreeParserCtxt ()"
between to checks.

Thanks for those informations,

Bye