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Re: Genx

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• Subject: Re: Genx
• From: David Tolpin <dvd@d...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:28:41 +0400 (AMT)
• In-reply-to: <007401c3df69$2ecd4330$9e539696@citkwaclaww2k>

> > 
> > Have you looked at the API of James Clark's Expat?
> 
> The reason there is that (especially) character data are passed
> through pointers into an internal working buffer. Having a null
> terminator in the API would effectively force Expat to allocate
> a new copy of the string.
> 
> Could there be a similar siutation for a writer API?
> Possibly yes - as it is conceivable that the data to be
> written out are part of some larger text/structure and
> there is no reason to force a new string allocation on the caller.

Yes, this is my point.

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