[Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Currently, FT_STRING values are null-terminated.
>
>However, that's a bit of a pain if the string is counted and not
>necessarily null-terminated in the packet - you have to copy the string
>to a buffer and null-terminate the buffer.
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>It might be convenient to have calls that add string items to the tree
>take the length of the actual string data, as well as the length of the
>item as a whole, and to make "value.string" be a structure containing a
>string length and a pointer to the string data.

This is a good thing.  Please do it.

Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx