Multi threading and xml

[pa7751]

Hi I have an xml file that has to be written by multiple threads running in parallel. How can we ensure that the structural integrity of the xml file i.e. many threads writing into the file can spoil the structure of the xml. One way is to make the write method synchronized, but that is a very high level approach with which only one thread may write at a time. So the other threads are ready with their data but cannot write until the lock is released. Is there a better way to do this?

[boen_robot]

You could write separate XML files, and only merge them in the end by a final thread that waits for all others to finish.