Thank you, Michael. 

Regards
Nikolay


Michael Glavassevich-3 wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Nikolay,
> 
> nikolayo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/13/2008
> 04:15:54 AM:
> 
>> Thank you, Michael. I realize that this is more of a DOM problem rather
> than
>> Xerces problem (and BTW - thank you and everybody out there for Xerces)
> but Xerces
>> is an influential product and Xerces developers must be some of the best
> DOM
>> experts that there are. So if you do not mind the question : what is your
>> take on using DOM documents in multi-threaded environment?
> 
> In general you need to be careful and synchronize your code such that no
> more than one thread accesses a DOM instance at a time. You need to do
> this
> because the DOM specification says nothing about thread-safety. In order
> to
> ensure your application will work with any DOM implementation you must
> assume the worst case. If your application doesn't need to work with
> arbitrary DOM implementations (and don't mind tying it to a specific
> implementation) you could select one which guarantees thread-safety for
> read, write or some set of methods (I don't know of one which has such
> guarantees) and synchronize more optimistically or not at all if the DOM
> implementation you're using allows you to do that.
> 
>> If general DOM discussion is off topic for you, I can also narrow this
> down to :
>> what is the safe bet for cloning of documents  in Xerces so that it is
> safe to use
>> clones in different threads?
> 
> In Xerces I'm pretty sure a cloned Document is completely disconnected
> from
> the original with possibly the exception of user data [1] your application
> may have copied over. It should generally be safe to use it in a different
> thread than the original Document.
> 
>> Regards
>> Nikolay
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1]
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#UserDataHandler
> 
> Michael Glavassevich
> XML Parser Development
> IBM Toronto Lab
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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