[libxml++] Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] Adding STL-container-like methods to Node instead of returning a container instance

[Christophe de V. <cde...@al...>]

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Le Jeudi 6 F=E9vrier 2003 18:31, Stefan Seefeld a =E9crit :
> I just think it is intuitive to use iterators to walk over child nodes
> (or attributes). In particular, instead of doubling the semantics of
> libxml2 (which uses doubly linked lists to hold child nodes), we could
> access that container directly instead of using our own ('NodeList').

that make sens.

>
> Of course, if the container itself is temporary, such as in case of
> the 'NodeSet' (a name defined in the XML spec) which is returned by
> an xpath 'find' operation, there is no way around.

I did not look at xpath in libxml2 but I guess that NodeSet could be a wrap=
per=20
around the libxml2 structure returned by xpath operations, and implement=20
STL-like methods which access the libxml2 container.
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