lxml - The Python XML Toolkit September 2004

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[lxml-dev] memory management strategies
by Martijn Faassen 15 Oct '04

15 Oct '04

Hi everybody, I'm trying to figure out strategies to manage memory automatically in lxml in the context of libxml2 trees. Some of my incomplete thinking and description of the problem has been encapsulated in the following document: http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/doc/memorymanagement.txt It's quite possible that I'm making things more complicated than necessary, as Vic said. I'm quite curious to hear Vic's and other people's thinking about this. The basic concept is that libxml2 maintains a tree representing XML. This tree can be manipulated by a host of C functions. lxml wraps this tree in two ways now. The wrapping is done by proxies written in Pyrex that typically stand in for a node in the libxml2 tree and expose informationon it. One wrapper, the one I started first, aims to provide an ElementTree API to the libxml2 tree. ElementTree is a pythonic and lightweight way to manipulate XML written by Fredrik Lundh, and lxml just tries to mimic that API as much as possible. The wrapping is currently incomplete, mostly due to the thorny memory management issues. The other wrapper which I started later provides a classical W3C DOM API. It's pretty good in the real-only department already, but as soon as I started considering writeable DOM the memory management issues came up again in full force. Help, please! Regards, Martijn

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[lxml-dev] test again
by vng1＠mac.com 30 Sep '04

30 Sep '04

doesn't seem to work for me... --- Don't be humble ... you're not that great. -- Golda Meir

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[lxml-dev] just a test
by vng1＠mac.com 28 Sep '04

28 Sep '04

just a test message from me. --- Don't be humble ... you're not that great. -- Golda Meir

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lxml - The Python XML Toolkit September 2004