[lxml-dev] Test failures on Windows

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 03:16:43PM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
| Not only generic. Pending open files is only a symptom here. The real problem
| is that none of the resources allocated for parsing is freed before you call
| the parser again (in which case new resources will be allocated right away).
| 
| So popping the input streams fixes the windows problem, but calling
| xmlClearParserCtxt() after parsing would be the right thing to do - if it
| didn't crash.

Thanks for the explanation. That makes a lot of sense.

A question though. Is the parser context expensive to allocate? Why
not use xmlFreeParserCtxt() and allocate a new one instead of
xmlResetParserCtxt()?

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