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Hi Robin, Robin said: We could tell people that a query is a snapshot of the tree at the moment at which it is taken. Sounds simple but the problem is in that case in order to be consistent the Nodes should be clones of the ones in the tree lest they be live even if the list isn't. And if clones, then in order to be useful they ought to be deep clones. I can hear those boxes swapping from here. Didier replies: Indeed, For xslt processors this is not a problem since they extract nodes to build a new infoset. The problem may occur with an xinclude engines that modifies an infoset structure. In fact, the problem happens if more than one processor simultaneously accessing the same data structure. In this case, we usually have a lock mechanism. Take for instance the relational data bases, they do not allow you to have two agents to modify the data at the same time. We simply say that the system tries to keep some "data integrity" and therefore let one agent to lock access to part of the data base for modifications. So, if more than one user need to access the same infoset at the same time, we will probably need a lock mechanism. The possible algorithms would be 1 - perform query - with a lock on the infoset 2 - perform some operation on the infoset fragment 3 - release the info set The circumstances when this would be needed is probably when we have several simultaneous clients modifying a single info set. This is quite sophisticated and not very obvious. I would focus at first on a mechanism allowing several modules in a processing pipeline to share the same infoset. Because a processing pipeline has processors doing some processes at different time, then, locking the infoset is unnecessary. This said, your point is well taken and obviously necessary for a shared infoset like we would have with an XML infoset store. More than one agent may change its content at the same time, therefore, locking mechanism or structural integrity has to be maintained. cheers Didier PH Martin ---------------------------------------------- Email: martind@n... Conferences: xml devcon 2000 (http://www.xmldevcon2000.com) Wireless Summit NY (http:www.pulver.com) xml devcon 2001 London (http://www.xmldevcon2000.com) Book: XML Professional (http://www.wrox.com) column: xml.com (http://www.xml.com)
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