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Elliotte Harold wrote:
> It occurred to me that it might be possible to design this as some
> sort of iterator interface like DOM's NodeIterator. Streaming
> implementations would only be able to walk this in a forward fashion.
I can see this working for pull parsers, but it's not clear to me how
it might integrate with a callback-style API.
> Then there could be a tree-based subclass of this interface that
> added methods for moving backwards, and along the independent axes.
This is exactly what I proposed:
>> an object resembling a tree navigator that can be used to iterate
>> over the nodes in the tree and retrieve individidual node objects
>> (more complex but object model agnostic, should perhaps be combined
>> with a property (a URI?) indicating the object model(s) supported).
As well as navigating around the tree (previous, next, first-child,
parent) it could be used to retrieve properties of the current node
(name, type, value), using a node adapter specific to the object model.
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Chris Burdess
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