Re: [xml] How to free memory allocated with xmlNewDocFragment() ?

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Alexandre Gouraud wrote:
> I am working on gdome2 in cygwin. The test suite fail. I am stuck in the
> debug somewhere with an invalid xmlFree() on a pointer allocated with
> xmlNewDocFragment().
>
> The libxml2 doc
> (http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlNewDocFragment) does
> not says what should be used to de-allocate memory allocated by
> xmlNewDocFragment(). Is xmlFree() the appropriate function to use in that
> case ?

A DocumentFragment is a Node so xmlFreeNode would seem the right method.
As I recall, xmlFree() ~ free(), so it would not care about memory the
Node holds, if any. The result however would seem to be a leak, not an
invalid deallocation, unless libxml2 does not use xmlFree()-able memory
for the Node. Has the DocumentFragment been added to some other node?
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