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

["Senthil Nathan" <rsennat gmail com>]

On 10/24/07, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --

So, this api xmlMutexLock, locks the whole tree??
And, if there are multiple trees, how do we specify which tree to be locked.

Could you please give more information.

Thanks
Senthil Nathan R