Re: [Webmacro-devel] Revised #macro stack overflow test code

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 17:20:36 -0700, Brian Goetz <br...@qu...> wrote:

>> I think it's time we found the right "tree" solution for WM.
>
> If traversing XML trees is your goal -- which I think is a reasonable
> restriction of the general goal -- I think some sort of XPath context
> tool will do it.
>
> XPath takes a query and returns a list of nodes.  The returned list is
> linear, so you can iterate over it with #foreach.

Yes.

[snip]

> This seems the right solution to me.  Leverage an existing XML-slicing
> mechanism, wrap DOM nodes with objects so they play nice with WM, and
> we're done.

Please see my new thread "WM and traversing trees"
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