Hi Matt,

I'm getting a memory leak in some old code I have inherited - it does this: 

sub getXMLTree{
   my $parser = new XML::DOM::Parser;
   $tree = "";
   if(!open(MYFILE,"$fileName")) {
      $tree = $parser->parse("<root></root>");
      $tree = createHeader($tree);
      $tree = createBody($tree);
   }else{
      close(MYFILE);
      $tree = $parser->parsefile($fileName);
   }
   $tree = updateHeader($tree);
   return ($tree);
}

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$filename being a string like "/tmp/myfile.xml"

Can you (or anyone) clarify, should I change how this is done or get a new version of XML::DOM::Parser (I just installed it last week so I cant see how that would help tho) 

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In reply to Re^2: (XML::Parser) Finding and fixing a bug by wolis
in thread (XML::Parser) Finding and fixing a bug by Juerd

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