Re: LibXSLT / XPathContext interaction

On 3 Dec 2003, at 11:55, Robin Berjon wrote:

> Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > On 1 Dec 2003, at 11:14, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> > > Well, I was hoping they would work together...  as the 
> > > register_function in the non-CVS version of LibXSLT is badly broken 
> > > if you try to build nodesets inside the Perl function.
> > I think it will always be broken - there's no way to get libxslt's 
> > manual free mechanism to work with perl's garbage collection system. 
> > At least not properly. The current CVS code just masks the problem.
>
> I thought Python had a simple refcounted GC just like Perl's, and that 
> libxslt works there, am I wrong? If not, the way they've done it could 
> surely help us.

I'm pretty sure the Python API for libxslt (and libxml) is a straight 
port of the C library, including having to free things yourself. 
Looking back, that might have been a better fit to the library, but it 
wouldn't have been a better fit to perl.

Matt.

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