Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] Multiple Node types

[Christophe de Vienne <cdevienne alphacent com>]

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On Lundi 9 Décembre 2002 20:47, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 20:56, Christophe de Vienne wrote:
> > I'm thinking of doing a base Node class, from which will herit
> > ElementNode, CommentNode, TextNode, and the 4 other possible node types.
>
> Yes, that's what other parsers do, though it will require tedious use of
> dynamic_cast<> or get_node_type().

If we consider the first solution below (even if it is not very clear), we can 
make it less painfull.

>
> > For the get_content and set_content accessors, I have 2 alternatives :
>
> It's not clear where these 2 alternatives begin and end in this

sorry. By your answer I think you anderstood what I meant.

> > A third one would be to do the second one, plus adding another accessor
> > on ElementNode with a different name. But which one ?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here.

I meant having different accessors name in ElementNode and TextNode (sorry for 
my approximative english). But anyway I don't think it's a good idea.

The more I think about it, the more I think having a unique accessor 
implemented differently in each node type is the best solution.



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