[libxml-devel] [ libxml-Bugs-19259 ] Calling remove! on a node causes memory leaks.

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Bugs item #19259, was opened at 2008-04-02 02:33
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Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Joe Khoobyar (walltndr)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: Calling remove! on a node causes memory leaks.

Initial Comment:
Nodes w/o a parent (i.e., due to calling remove!) will never be garbage collected because of a (typo?) mistaken &&
instead of || when checking the parent and the doc for NULL.  Calling remove! never sets the doc to NULL.  In fact,
you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere in libxml2 or libxml-ruby where the doc pointer is explicitly set to NULL.

See patch #19257 for the easy solution.

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