Re: [xml] Re: Newbie memory allocation problem with xmlDocDumpFormatMemory

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 05:11:36PM -0400, Victor Ng wrote:
> When am I allowed to call xmlCleanupParser()?
>
> I'm worried about this last bit from the docs:
>
> "...xmlCleanupParser() only when the process has finished using the
> library or XML document built with it."
>
> I'm confused - can I call xmlCleanupParser before my process is
> finished with XML processing or not then?  Can I still safely
> manipulate my documents _after_ I've call xmlCleanupParser?

  no

> Is it safe to do the following?
>
> doc0 = xmlNewDoc(...)
> doc1 = xmlNewDoc(...)
> doc2 = xmlNewDoc(...)
> xmlCleanupParser()
>
> // do stuff to doc 1
> xmlFreeDoc(doc1)
> xmlCleanupParser()
>
> // do stuff to doc2
> xmlCleanupParser()
>
> xmlFreeDoc(doc2)
> xmlFreeDoc(doc0)

  not safe.
Only when you have finished using libxml2.

Daniel

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