Re: [xml] Locking and unlocking a part of the xml tree

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:10:19PM +0530, Senthil Nathan wrote:
> 
>    Hi All,
> 
>    I  was  reading through the api's for locking the xml tree and checked
>    that,
> 
> 
> 
>    xmlMutexLock() is used to lock a libxml2 token.
> 
>    xmlMutexUnlock() is used to unlock a libxml2 token.
> 
>    xmlNewMutex()  is  used  to allocate a libxml2 token struct for use in
>    synchronizing access to data.
> 
> 
> 
>    Would  like  to  know, is there a way to lock and unlock a node in the
>    xmlDocPtr.
> 
>    Or anyother means to do this?

  No. There is no locking in place in libxml2 for shared trees. One tree
per thread or you manage your own locking.

Daniel

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