On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:58:41PM +0000, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm pretty new to libxml2 (2.6.29) and have therefor a question about
> memory handling. When I add a new child to a tree e.g.
> xmlNewChild(root_node, NULL, BAD_CAST "test", BAD_CAST testcontent);
> Does the function xmlNewChild copy the content "testcontent" to a new
> buffer? So that a free(testcontent) is safe.
xmlNodePtr
xmlNewChild(xmlNodePtr parent, xmlNsPtr ns,
const xmlChar *name, const xmlChar *content);
the values of name and content are not used as is, they are copied
internally. If you dynamically allocated content then its your responsability
to free it.
Daniel
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