Re: [xml] Text writer memory won't write

["James Dennett" <jdennett technocom-wireless com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-bounces gnome org [mailto:xml-bounces gnome org] On Behalf
Of
> Daniel Veillard
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:52 AM
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Text writer memory won't write
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Mike Mueller wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:18:51PM -0800, William M. Brack wrote:
> > > Mike Mueller wrote:
> > I compiled the test program and it works fine.  It turns out the
data
> > gets dumped into the buffer when you call xmlFreeTextWriter.  I
wasn't
> > freeing the writer until much after I tried to find my data in the
> > buffer.  Of course, the documentation for this function simply says:
> >
> >     Deallocate all the resources associated to the writer
> >
> > Yay for confusing APIs.
>
>   This is standard behaviour to flush on close when doing pipe like
> processing, simply to avoid the cost of sync'ing out at every single
> write. Mind you if you use an I/O function which for example send a
> packet to a network interface, your really *do not want* to get a
packet
> out each time you Write a new attribute to your stream. If that's what
> you require, I really suggest you write your own synchronous API,
because
> except you nobody expects or want this !

I think the design (flushing on termination) is fine, but there's room
to improve the name or the documentation: an "xmlFree*" function doesn't
say "finalize" or "terminate", so if that name must stay then the
documentation should say that this function is needed in order to flush
the output.

-- James