[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/10/2007 04:35:38 PM:

> >Is the current stance a matter of principle (you don't believe the
> Xerces DOM should ever be made >thread-safe for read) or a practical
> constraint due to limited resources (you'd like the Xerces DOM to be
> >thread-safe, but other issues/enhancements have higher priority)?
>
> My stance: I don't believe the Xerces DOM should be made thread-safe
> for read at the cost of making it slower, since most folks don't
> need that feature and there are other (and usually better) ways to
> achieve the same result. That's either a principled matter of
> practicality, or a practical matter of principle, take your pick.

... and even if it could be made thread-safe without making it slower I
think it's unlikely to happen for the same reasons for many things that
don't happen in open source projects: limited resources which don't have
enough interest (possibly in part because the community doesn't have enough
interest) and/or time and/or capability to do the work.

> ______________________________________
> "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong,
> A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..."
> -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff.
> org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html)

Thanks.

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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