XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> I've started implementing this and I did find one hitch. The 
> replaceChild and removeChildren methods are no longer guaranteedly 
> atomic because I can't check whether one will succeed without 
> actually calling it as I could with checkRemoveChild and 
> checkInsertChild. So far I don't see an easy way around this.

I don't understand this about atomicity.  If you mean that overridden
versions of these in subclasses may not be atomic, it's true -- but
they may be inherently doing things, like inserting dummy elements,
that aren't going to be atomic.  AFAICT, the superclass method will
still be atomic.

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