I need to modify this class to mark nodes as deleted without actually deleting them. Of course, other changes will need to be made to the class to facilitate this. I'm really confused where to start. Should I add another Node variable in the inner node class to denote a marked node? How could I mark it as deleted, give it a value like -1, or give it a string value saying that it is marked?

/**
 * LinkedList class implements a doubly-linked list.
 */
public class MyLinkedList<AnyType> implements Iterable<AnyType>
{
    /**
     * Construct an empty LinkedList.
     */
    public MyLinkedList( )
    {
        clear( );
    }
    
    /**
     * Change the size of this collection to zero.
     */
    public void clear( )
    {
        beginMarker = new Node<AnyType>( null, null, null );
        endMarker = new Node<AnyType>( null, beginMarker, null );
        beginMarker.next = endMarker;
        
        theSize = 0;
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns the number of items in this collection.
     * @return the number of items in this collection.
     */
    public int size( )
    {
        return theSize;
    }
    
    public boolean isEmpty( )
    {
        return size( ) == 0;
    }
    
    /**
     * Adds an item to this collection, at the end.
     * @param x any object.
     * @return true.
     */
    public boolean add( AnyType x )
    {
        add( size( ), x );   
        return true;         
    }
    
    /**
     * Adds an item to this collection, at specified position.
     * Items at or after that position are slid one position higher.
     * @param x any object.
     * @param idx position to add at.
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if idx is not between 0 and size(), inclusive.
     */
    public void add( int idx, AnyType x )
    {
        addBefore( getNode( idx, 0, size( ) ), x );
    }
    
    /**
     * Adds an item to this collection, at specified position p.
     * Items at or after that position are slid one position higher.
     * @param p Node to add before.
     * @param x any object.
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if idx is not between 0 and size(), inclusive.
     */    
    private void addBefore( Node<AnyType> p, AnyType x )
    {
        Node<AnyType> newNode = new Node<AnyType>( x, p.prev, p );
        newNode.prev.next = newNode;
        p.prev = newNode;         
        theSize++;
    }   
    
    
    /**
     * Returns the item at position idx.
     * @param idx the index to search in.
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if index is out of range.
     */
    public AnyType get( int idx )
    {
        return getNode( idx ).data;
    }
        
    /**
     * Changes the item at position idx.
     * @param idx the index to change.
     * @param newVal the new value.
     * @return the old value.
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if index is out of range.
     */
    public AnyType set( int idx, AnyType newVal )
    {
        Node<AnyType> p = getNode( idx );
        AnyType oldVal = p.data;
        
        p.data = newVal;   
        return oldVal;
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the Node at position idx, which must range from 0 to size( ) - 1.
     * @param idx index to search at.
     * @return internal node corrsponding to idx.
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if idx is not between 0 and size( ) - 1, inclusive.
     */
    private Node<AnyType> getNode( int idx )
    {
        return getNode( idx, 0, size( ) - 1 );
    }

    /**
     * Gets the Node at position idx, which must range from lower to upper.
     * @param idx index to search at.
     * @param lower lowest valid index.
     * @param upper highest valid index.
     * @return internal node corrsponding to idx.
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if idx is not between lower and upper, inclusive.
     */    
    private Node<AnyType> getNode( int idx, int lower, int upper )
    {
        Node<AnyType> p;
        
        if( idx < lower || idx > upper )
            throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException( "getNode index: " + idx + "; size: " + size( ) );
            
        if( idx < size( ) / 2 )
        {
            p = beginMarker.next;
            for( int i = 0; i < idx; i++ )
                p = p.next;            
        }
        else
        {
            p = endMarker;
            for( int i = size( ); i > idx; i-- )
                p = p.prev;
        } 
        
        return p;
    }
    
    /**
     * Removes an item from this collection.
     * @param idx the index of the object.
     * @return the item was removed from the collection.
     */
    public AnyType remove( int idx )
    {
        return remove( getNode( idx ) );
    }
    
    /**
     * Removes the object contained in Node p.
     * @param p the Node containing the object.
     * @return the item was removed from the collection.
     */
    private AnyType remove( Node<AnyType> p )
    {
        p.next.prev = p.prev;
        p.prev.next = p.next;
        theSize--;
        
        return p.data;
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns a String representation of this collection.
     */
    public String toString( )
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder( "[ " );
        
        for( AnyType x : this )
            sb.append( x + " " );
        sb.append( "]" );
    
        return new String( sb );
    }
    
    /**
     * Obtains an Iterator object used to traverse the collection.
     * @return an iterator positioned prior to the first element.
     */
    public java.util.Iterator<AnyType> iterator( )
    {
        return new LinkedListIterator( );
    }

    /**
     * This is the implementation of the LinkedListIterator.
     * It maintains a notion of a current position and of
     * course the implicit reference to the MyLinkedList.
     */
    private class LinkedListIterator implements java.util.Iterator<AnyType>
    {
        private Node<AnyType> current = beginMarker.next;
        private boolean okToRemove = false;
        
        public boolean hasNext( )
        {
            return current != endMarker;
        }
        
        public AnyType next( )
        {
            if( !hasNext( ) )
                throw new java.util.NoSuchElementException( ); 
                   
            AnyType nextItem = current.data;
            current = current.next;
            okToRemove = true;
            return nextItem;
        }
        
        public void remove( )
        {
            if( !okToRemove )
                throw new IllegalStateException( );
                
            MyLinkedList.this.remove( current.prev );
            okToRemove = false;       
        }
    }
    
    /**
     * This is the doubly-linked list node.
     */
    private static class Node<AnyType>
    {
        public Node( AnyType d, Node<AnyType> p, Node<AnyType> n )
        {
            data = d; prev = p; next = n;
        }
        
        public AnyType data;
        public Node<AnyType>   prev;
        public Node<AnyType>   next;
    }
    
    private int theSize;
    private Node<AnyType> beginMarker;
    private Node<AnyType> endMarker;
}

class TestLinkedList
{
    public static void main( String [ ] args )
    {
        MyLinkedList<Integer> lst = new MyLinkedList<Integer>( );
        
        for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++ )
            lst.add( i );
        for( int i = 20; i < 30; i++ )
            lst.add( 0, i );
        
        lst.remove( 0 );
        lst.remove( lst.size( ) - 1 );
        
        System.out.println( lst );
        
        java.util.Iterator<Integer> itr = lst.iterator( );
        while( itr.hasNext( ) )
        {
            itr.next( );
            itr.remove( );
            System.out.println( lst );
        }
    }
}

I changed the toString method, and added a boolean variable to the inner node class to represent whether a node has been marked for deletion, along with getter and setter methods for this variable. Now, I am having problems in the iterator. When the code is run, more nodes should be marked true through each iteration of while loop in the main method, but this is not the case. Only the first and last nodes are marked as true. Here are the changes I made:

private static class Node<AnyType>
    {
        public AnyType data;
        public Node<AnyType>   prev;
        public Node<AnyType>   next;
        public boolean mark;

        public Node( AnyType d, Node<AnyType> p, Node<AnyType> n, boolean m )
        {
            data = d; prev = p; next = n;
            mark = m;
        }
    }

public AnyType remove( int idx )
    {
        setMarked(idx);
        return remove( getNode( idx ) );
    }

    /**
     * Removes the object contained in Node p.
     * @param p the Node containing the object.
     * @return the item was removed from the collection.
     */


    private AnyType remove( Node<AnyType> p )
    {
        //p.next.prev = p.prev;
        //p.prev.next = p.next;
        //theSize--;

        return p.data;
    }



    /**
     * Returns a String representation of this collection.
     */
    public String toString( )
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder( "[ " );
        int y = 0;
        for( AnyType x : this )
        {
            sb.append( x + "" + getMarked(y) + " ");
            y++;
        }
        
        sb.append( "]" );
        

        return new String( sb );
    }

    public boolean getMarked(int index)
    {
        return getNode(index).mark;
    }

    public boolean setMarked(int index)
    {
        return getNode(index).mark = true;
    }
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