See difference between WeakHashMap and HashMap at http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/07/09/optimization.html?page=2
Basically then the document is gc'ed, i want to get rid of the weakhashmap of the element/id pair's in that document. thanks, dims --- Sean Mullan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, why a WeakHashMap? That seems kind of dangerous if the programmer > is not aware you are using a WeakHashMap because entries could be removed if you > don't maintain a reference to the key. Or maybe I am missing something. > > Davanum Srinivas wrote: > > Updated bugzilla with a patch that does the following: > > - removed the code that registers the id using the xerces hack > > - instead store the id/element pair in WeakHashMap's (ONE per document, also a > > WeakHashMap) > > - getElementById looks first in our WeakHashMap table, then looks in uses > "doc.getElementById(id)" > > > > This should satisfy both requirements: > > - get rid of xerces dependency hack for id's that we register. > > - still use standard DOM calls to "GET" id's from the document if it is not > > registered by us. > > > > Bugzilla: > > http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26789 > > > > -- dims > > > > --- Scott Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I guess the unstated point I'm trying make here is that the best world is > >>one in which the standard DOM calls are used in addition to whatever one-off > >>solution the libraries decide to implement. > >> > >>It should be simple to conditionally call those methods (if they exist) as a > >>consequence of the proprietary calls. And enable/disable the proprietary > >>schema as a library option. > >> > >>-- Scott > >> > > > > > > > > ===== > > Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/ > > ===== Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/
