Re: [xml] re-use xmldocPtr

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Remy HAREL wrote:
> I have to read several documents, differents from each others, and I 
> want to re-use my xmlDocPtr. My main program calls many times a function 
> which reads, parses and works on my files.
>
> In this function, I wonder if I can re-initialize my xmlDocPtr without 
> xmlFreeDoc and xmlNewDoc for each function call.

  not possible by default. The unit of allocation is the document. You
can reuse parser contexts but not the document nodes. It's all a matter of
having a good memory allocator underneath, which you can change if needed,
see:
   http://xmlsoft.org/xmlmem.html#setting

Daniel

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