Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] Re: multi-node-types API changes

[Christophe de VIENNE <cdevienne alphacent com>]

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Le Mercredi 18 Décembre 2002 16:12, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> Actually I'd prefer to change it because it obscures the API. But we can
> do that later.

I personnaly prefer not.
I see it this way : A node is a part of a tree and have both a parent and some 
children, except for certain type of node.
And even if it obscure a little bit the API (very little), it gives the great 
advantage to be able to manipulate a complete tree without having to know 
about each node type.
If these methods go to the ElementNode, they will still returns Node *, and on 
each we'll have to check the type to know if we can descend into it, and then 
cast it.
This will be, at last, more heavy I think.

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