[xsd-users] Parallelization of the serializer

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Yury,

Yury Zaytsev <yury.zaytsev at traveltainment.de> writes:

> This brings me to the question of what can I safely assume about the 
> thread-safety of the serializer? A naive attempt to cilk_for my 
> serialization loop has lead to a segfault, so I assume that it simply 
> isn't thread-safe :-)

Yes, underneath it uses Xerces-C++ DOM serializer, about which one
shouldn't make any assumptions ;-).

I think the only approach that has a chance of working is to create
a separate serializer for each "loop iteration" (which in reality
might run in a separate thread).

This will work much better for an XML that doesn't use namespaces
since the serializer maintains a namespace stack. We could probable
even copy it with a bit of effort.

Boris