Re: Text writer memory won't write

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-bouncesgnome.org [mailtoml-bo
uncesgnome.org] On Behalf
Of
> Daniel Veillard
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:52 AM
> To: xmlgnome.org
> Subject: Re: [xml] Text writer memory won't write
> 
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Mike Mueller
wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 07:18:51PM -0800, William
M. Brack wrote:
> > > Mike Mueller wrote:
> > I compiled the test program and it works fine.  It
turns out the
data
> > gets dumped into the buffer when you call
xmlFreeTextWriter.  I
wasn't
> > freeing the writer until much after I tried to
find my data in the
> > buffer.  Of course, the documentation for this
function simply says:
> >
> >     Deallocate all the resources associated to the
writer
> >
> > Yay for confusing APIs.
> 
>   This is standard behaviour to flush on close when
doing pipe like
> processing, simply to avoid the cost of sync'ing out at
every single
> write. Mind you if you use an I/O function which for
example send a
> packet to a network interface, your really *do not
want* to get a
packet
> out each time you Write a new attribute to your stream.
If that's what
> you require, I really suggest you write your own
synchronous API,
because
> except you nobody expects or want this !

I think the design (flushing on termination) is fine, but
there's room
to improve the name or the documentation: an
"xmlFree*" function doesn't
say "finalize" or "terminate", so if
that name must stay then the
documentation should say that this function is needed in
order to flush
the output.

-- James

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