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[cellml-dev] [libsbml-team] Changing state in libxml


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  • From: lpsmith at spod-central.org (Lucian Smith)
  • Subject: [cellml-dev] [libsbml-team] Changing state in libxml
  • Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:40:20 +0000

And indeed, configuring lisbml with expat instead makes the problem go
away, as expected.

This is a reasonable workaround for now, but I would still like to find a
more permanent solution.

-Lucian

* Frank T. Bergmann <fbergman at caltech.edu> [2011-02-19 00:18] writes:
> Perhaps you could try to configure libsbml to work with expat, or xerces-c.
> That will help you to narrow down your suspicion. If the crash persists then
> you know that it is not due to both libraries using libxml.
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: libsbml-team-bounces at caltech.edu [mailto:libsbml-team-
> > bounces at caltech.edu] On Behalf Of Lucian Smith
> > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 4:12 PM
> > To: A list for the developers of CellML tools
> > Cc: libSBML Team
> > Subject: [libsbml-team] Changing state in libxml
> >
> > When trying to code up a translator which would convert between CellML,
> > Antimony, and SBML, I ran into the following problem.
> >
> > Right now, I have libsbml configured to use libxml, the same XML parser
> that
> > CellML uses. I can read a document in with libsbml, and everything is
> fine. I
> > can then read a document with the CellML API, and everything is fine.
> > However, if I then read that same document with libsbml, I get a segfault
> > error, and if I run it though valgrind, I'm actually getting an invalid
> read.
> >
> > Attached is a smallish program that demonstrates this issue. It seems to
> me
> > that CellML is changing the state of libxml in some way, and this messes
> up the
> > subsequent libsbml call, causing the segfault.
> >
> > So my question is: how does CellML change the state of libxml, and how do
> I
> > undo this? Or is there something else going on?
> >
> > -Lucian
>
>




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