RE: [Htmlparser-developer] Label Tag

[<dha...@or...>]

>> Now for the setLabel method of LabelTag. Considering all things(i.e.
as
>> much as my mind can think of), how about using a NodeList as a
>> parameter? Developers can either use the orginal NodeList with some
>> modifications or create an entirely new one and pass it to the method
>> which in turn will effetively replace the childTags variable in
>> CompositeTag. An overloaded String parameter based one can also be
given
>> with information related to its possible slow performance due to
>> internal parsing. All this is only to shield users from inner-level
>> code. Otherwise everything that is required to be done can get done
but
>> only after getting some knowledge over these mailing lists......thanx
to
>> somik and Derrick.

> It is doubtful that users of the parser will normally need this.
Advanced
> users would - who write their own scanners. We'd probably like them to
know
> something about the internals - not too much of course. Striking the
right
> balance is hard. Its always good to revisit a problem. Now that you
know
> what you do, what do you think is the minimum and simplest, given that
you
> don't want to lose performance ? (You are in the advanced user
category now)

Lets go in for the NodeList based approach. (However I do believe that
the String absed approach will give a lot of flexibility even though it
may impact performance.......which may not be crucial to all).

> Hmm.. I seem to have misplaced them (apologies). Can you mail them to
> Derrick ?
> Derrick-> Dhaval is inside a firewall, and does not have access to our
CVS
> repository.

Will do. Derrick, I'll take the latest sources and give my changes over
them. Also will add removeAll method to NodeList.

Regards,
Dhaval