On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 19:18 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > 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.
That's the behavior I expected and like ;-) Thanks for clarification. Regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
