Re: XML File Locking

2002-05-16 Thread Robert Buck
Hi Frederick, Is performance a concern for you? Have you considered other potential needs such as having multiple documents, or performing multi-doc queries? Or indexing? If so, have you considered using a commercial pure XML database? Both Software AG and eXcelon have them; though eXcelon XIS

Re: XML File Locking

2002-05-16 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Fredrick Paul Eisele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am considering using an xml file as a data repository. > I would like to have concurrent processes reading and writing > from the file with something analogous to the record locking > capability of fcntl. > > What would it take to create suc

XML File Locking

2002-05-16 Thread Fredrick Paul Eisele
I am considering using an xml file as a data repository. I would like to have concurrent processes reading and writing from the file with something analogous to the record locking capability of fcntl. What would it take to create such an element locking mechanism? Allow locking on ids only with a