Re: [xml] Possible bug with xmlBufferPtr object?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:25:58PM -0500, Gilles Roy wrote:
> I'm trying to make a copy of an in memory XML buffer. Based on the
> sample code on the website (testWriter.c, the testXmlwriterMemory
> function) I want to copy it to a buffer instead of writing to a file.
> However, what I tried was:
>
> char *xmldata = malloc(buf->use);
> memcpy(xmldata, buf->content, buf->use);
>
> However, this doesn't quite work. If buf->content is a string "abcd"
> buf->use will be 4. This doesn't count for any kind of string
> terminator. Should it?
>
> Or does the application have to add the string terminator itself?

  The terminator may not be present in a buffer and it's definitely
not accounted for in the size, like in any classic C API, I can't see
why you're expecting this.

Daniel

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