[Expat-discuss] Parsing External Entities

[Michael B. Allen]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:52:11 -0500
"Karl Waclawek" <karl at waclawek.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael B. Allen" <miallen at eskimo.com>
> To: "Karl Waclawek" <karl at waclawek.net>
> Cc: <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] Parsing External Entities
> 
> 
> > > > Also, using the external entity XML_Parser created with
> > > > XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate my dump program segfaults if I attempt
> > > > to free it with XML_ParserFree. I suppose this parser is simply the same
> > > > parser in a different state and therefore I need not free it?
> > > 
> > > No, you must free it. Need more detail.
> > > Which version of Expat are you using?
> > 
> > 1.95.2-2 RPM from RH 7.3
> 
> Please try the current CVS release. We have really done a lot of fixing.
> A few bugs and a lot of conformance and feature completion
> like UTF-16 output and NS triplets are working now.

I do not need external entity parsing explicitly. I was just trying to
get Expat to do whatever it can so that I can expose the functionality in
my DOM ("DOMC"). I don't want users to be required to use a bleeding edge
Expat. I will just punt on external entites for now. But it seems strange
that these functions are available and do not work as advertised. Is
this really the case that you simply cannot parse external entities with
1.95.2?

> 
> > Also, to what extent do we free the XML_Content model in element
> > declaration handlers? Is that one chunk of memory? Otherwise if I try
> > to recursively free children I segfault.
> 
> This was mentioned in a very recent message on this list.
> It is one chunk, but we are thinking to add either an XML_FreeContentModel
> function or an XML_GetMemSuite function to the API.
> 
> Karl
> 


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