Re: XML APIs

keshlam@us.ibm.com wrote:

> (Conceptually,
> it isn't all that complicated to make the editing operations atomic...

Making the editing operations atomic isn't enough.  You still need
a way to indicate the state of the whole tree: either it is being
traversed or it is being edited, but not both at once.  (This makes
traversing it in order to edit it problematic.)

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

Received on Tuesday, 3 November 1998 13:11:16 UTC