Re: [xml] Memory not going away.. SOLUTION

["David W. Bauer Jr." <bauerd cs rpi edu>]

Ok, I have provided the simplest of examples, and cannot account for why
this is so either, but that doesn't change the fact that it is so.

Probably, I am just got lucky in some way.. but this should be simple
enough for someone to look at and see what is wrong immediately.

After spending the entire day digging through API dox, source code, and
examples, I am no closer to solving the problem.. because, when I applied
this solution to my working code, it did not work.

David Bauer

Ph.D Candidate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computer Science Department

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On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:01:26PM -0500, David W. Bauer Jr. wrote:
> > Recall I had:
> >
> >         xmlXPathInit();
> >         document_network = xmlParseFile(filename);
> >         ctxt = xmlXPathNewContext(document_network);
> >
> >         xmlXPathFreeContext(ctxt);
> >         xmlFreeDoc(document_network);
> >     xmlCleanupParser();
> >         xmlMemoryDump();
> >
> > The solution:
> >
> >         xmlXPathInit();
> >         document_network = xmlParseFile(filename);
> >     ctxt = xmlXPathNewContext(document_network);
> > >         xmlXPathFreeContext(ctxt);
> >         xmlCleanupParser();
> >         xmlFreeDoc(document_network);
> >         xmlMemoryDump();
> >
> > Notice that I need to cleanup the parser prior to freeing the document.
>
>   Makes absolutely no sense. xmlCleanupParser() is a library wide
> memory deallocation, you should not call it while you had document allocated
> since they could now point to freed area (example predefined entities).
> I think your methodology of test is wrong, and the programming way of
> trying anything until it seems to work to not be better. Read the doc
> dor xmlCleanupParser() it is very clear you should not do this.
>
> Daniel
>
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