Re: [xml] is libxml2 library thread safe

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:11:58AM +0100, Martin B. wrote:
> On 22.01.2012 23:15, ajay bhadauria wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is libxml2 library is thread safe ? Can we use the same
> > xmlSchemaValidCtxtPtr across the threads for schema validation ?
>
> libxml2 is thread-safe after the library has been initialized with
> xmlInitParser()

  for concurrent operations on different trees yes

> I would assume that xmlSchemaValidCtxtPtr is also thread-safe in
> general. (As long as you do not use it on the same object.)

  I think you need to create one validity context per thread.
Then the validations can run concurrently.

Daniel

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