Re: [libxml++] node iterators

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

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Le Vendredi 7 F=E9vrier 2003 19:01, Stefan Seefeld a =E9crit :
> Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > I'm now thinking that ForwardContainer migh be a better choice of STL
> > concept to model, as it has fewer requirements so might be simpler to
> > implement 1) while still supporting an STL-style interface. This would
> > mean you can get an iterator from any Node, not just from some container
> > type.
>
> agreed. In fact, the more I think about suggestion 2) the more I like
> it: the 'Node' class has a 'get_children()' and a 'get_attribute()'
> method returning both a NodeList. So far it's almost as it was.
> However, instead of typedefing NodeList to be 'std::list<Node *>',
> I'd suggest we define it such that creation of a NodeList only implies
> a single copy: that of the first child node / attribute of the given
> node. The iterator is then implemented to traverse the libxml2 linked
> list, not the STL container as it did before.
>
> Does this sound satisfactory to everybody ?
>

Yes.

We can already revert current iterators implementation on main branch.

Then I'd like to see this as a patch before commiting something. For now I=
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consider this more like a proposition (very interesting one though).

Regards,

Christophe

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