Re: GSoC Update: Week 3: GDOM

Good evening.

Here is my third status report for GDOM in the Google Summer of Code.

Completed this week

Spoke with Alberto Ruiz about progress so far and direction
Changed some of my class structure regarding Attributes as Nodes: added a VirtualNode: all libxml2 classes that are backed by an XmlNode* use DomNode directly, everything else uses VirtualNode
learnt a bit more about virtual and override methods :D Finally get behaviour I want, instead of using new on method
now all nodes should know their owning document
filled out a lot of unit tests, for Document, and especially for Element and DomNode, for spec compliance.
finished implementing a lot of functionality for the above classes to pass their lovely tests
implemented a lot of Attr for its role in the DomNode test, but not its own test yet
made it compile

Issues

went on a school-related trip for Thursday through Saturday and plans for Internet availability were disappointed (the place we stayed at was having issues), so I wasn't able to push things regularly except when at a Starbucks

Next Week

I had wanted to get a test suite for Attr done this past week as well, but didn't, so that's now a priority for this week
figure out Document loading with respect to GIO
implement details for more of the other classes