'Re: "Re: Re: [xml] multithreading issue?"'

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

oliverst online de wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> schrieb am 18.10.2004, 14:33:39:

[...]

> > http://xmlsoft.org/threads.html
> >
> > "call xmlInitParser() in the "main" thread before using any of the
> >  libxml2 API (except possibly selecting a different memory allocator)"

> I know! That's why I asked for the reason some functions in the libxml2
> still call it. If it's the guideline you have to call it, before you do
> anything with it, those functions don't need to call it again. And some
> other initialisations also seem like they are called twice.

AFAIK some of the functions call xmlInitParser for historical and for 
single-threaded application reasons. Have a look at Daniels message [1]; 
it explains, why those calls cannot be removed.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2003-August/msg00178.html

Greetings,

Kasimier