xml_create: Creating an empty element

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Creation of an element is nothing more than allocating the space, then allocating space for a copy of the name and copying it.

For extra credit, determine how omitting the initialization of ret->parent would screw up xml_read later on. But only sometimes. That stupid omission cost me a rather horrible evening in July of 2000.
  
XMLAPI XML * xml_create (const char * name)
{
   XML * ret;

   ret = (XML *) MALLOC (sizeof (struct _element));
   memset (ret, 0, sizeof (struct _element));
   ret->name = xml_strdup (name);

   return (ret);
}
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