Re: Appreciation

Chris Cheung <[email protected]> writes:

> Also, just want to let you know that I appreciate your voluntary work. 
> We are actual using Xerces-Perl in a commercial project, which will be put 
> into production in 1 or 2 months. 

Hi Chris!

Thanks for the note of appreciation, it helps emmensely. I started
working on this project because I needed a good XML parser for Perl,
and I've continued working on it, mostly alone, for that same reason.

Having a user community is something that really inspires me, so
thanks again for the note.

> Xerces-Perl is good as it enables Perl applications directly access the
> Xerces-C ability to perform validation against schema, apart from parsing
> and serialization. (It seems that libxml2, which also has a Perl wrapper,
> does not do validation so well.) However, the memory leak problem (during
> parsing even if validation is turned off, and during serialization) is 
> hindering the project to use Xerces in a more large-scale way.

I agree. I debugged this as much as I was able and came up with a big
zero. It is *not* a Xerces-C problem, so it is a XML-Xerces problem -
but given the code we are executing I am not able to figure out where
the problem lies.

I could really use some help here.

If anyone has some time to run a test program through purify or
valgrind and identify exactly where the leaks are happening I'll be
happy to fix it. 

Cheers,
jas.