Re: [xml] Hash question: behavior of a hash with xmlHashAddEntry and xmlHashAddEntry2 types

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:56:45PM -0500, David Hagood wrote:
> Given that I have created a hash with xmlHashCreate:
>
> 1) Is it valid to populate it with calls to both xmlHashAddEntry and
> xmlHashAddEntry2 - in other words, having entries with one or two strings.
> 2) What is the behavior of xmlHashLookup and xmlHashLookup2 in such a case?
>
> For example, is the following code valid?
>
> xmlHashAddEntry2(hash,BAD_CAST "Smokey",BAD_CAST "Bear",&bear);
> xmlHashAddEntry(hash,"Smokey",&bandit);
>
> And if so, what will  xmlHashLookup(hash,BAD_CAST "Smokey") return?
>
> The hash documentation isn't clear on whether this is valid or not.

  That should be valid xmlHashAddEntry is a call to xmlHashAddEntry3 
with 2 extra NULL args, and xmlHashLookup is a call to xmlHashLookup3
with 2 extra NULL args, everything is done internally with 3 args.
Note however that I never tried to mix in libxml2 code itself.

Daniel

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