[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason E. Stewart) writes:
> Brian Faull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Depends on what you are doing - if it is DOM related, then yes, you
> must tell the parser to release the memory, otherwise it grows. From
> the API docs:
>
> void AbstractDOMParser::resetDocumentPool()
>
> Reset the documents vector pool and release all the associated memory
> back to the system.
>
> When parsing a document using a DOM parser, all memory allocated for a
> DOM tree is associated to the DOM document.
>
> If you do multiple parse using the same DOM parser instance, then
> multiple DOM documents will be generated and saved in a vector
> pool. All these documents (and thus all the allocated memory) won't be
> deleted until the parser instance is destroyed.
>
> If you don't need these DOM documents anymore and don't want to
> destroy the DOM parser instance at this moment, then you can call this
> method to reset the document vector pool and release all the allocated
> memory back to the system.
As a note - if you create a new parser each time, this should *not*
cause a leak:
while (1) {
my $parser = XML::Xerces::XercesDOMParser->new();
$parser->parse(XML::Xerces::MemBufInputSource->new('<test/>'));
}
if it does, that's a *big* problem, and I'd like to know about it.
Cheers,
jas.
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