[XML-SIG] Re: FREE DOM

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Ken MacLeod writes:
>When you build the tree, don't include parent references.  But when
>somebody asks for a tree object, return a proxy for the tree object
>that includes a parent reference.  Create iterator methods in the
>proxy object that return new proxies with a correct parent
>proxy-iterator.

	That seems like a reasonable strategy, but how do you
determine what the parent reference should be, in general?  It's
obviously trivial to construct a proxy for some special cases, such as 
the children of a node, but how would you find the parent of a node
without actually storing a reference to it?  Storing a non-reference,
such as an integer ID?  Walking the tree?  Something else?

-- 
A.M. Kuchling			http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/
First, you must know what the thing is, and then after learn the use of the
same.
    -- Robert Recorde