XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 10:20 PM -0500 3/12/04, John Cowan wrote:

> 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.

Thanks. I think you're right. I'm worrying too much about nothing. I 
was still a little too stuck in the old way of doing things. My 
concern was that a child could veto its insertion or removal, but 
that's not how the code actually works now. It's all in the parent. 
If the subclass overrides the insertChild or removeChild method such 
that they may throw an exception, then they'll also need to override 
replaceChild/removeChildren. I just need to document the interactions 
in the JavaDoc.

> John Cowan  jcowan AT reutershealth.com  www.reutershealth.com 
> www.ccil.org/~cowan
> Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
> "Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
> English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
> lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."

To be honest, the original sentence makes no more sense to me than 
the doubly translated one. :-)

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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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