RE: [xml] Question about parent/child (python-libxml2)

["Stéphane Bidoul" <stephane bidoul softwareag com>]

> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:49:20PM +0200, W. Borgert wrote:
> > Quoting Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>:
> > > fields ??? Obviously the constructor for "for .. in" does
> > > a recursive descent on each element list. So please read
> >
> > Obviously it was not obvious to me.  I somehow assumed that
> > the for-loop had the same semantics.
>
>  I think it's all Stéphane Bidoul faults :-), he added support
> for iterator at the Python level.

I plead not guilty, your honour :-)
According to the NEWS file (which BTW has some accents
problems on xmlsoft.org) it was not me who implemented
the iterators...

>  Since usually people have more trouble walking a tree in document
> order than a simple linked list, his choice is probably what helps
> Python users most, even if it's not obvious at a syntactic level
> that the semantic recurses down the trees.

In python land, that would probably be deemed somewhat unpythonic...
Had I done it myself, I would have made node.children an iterator
for the node's children, and a different method to create a tree
walker iterator.

Anyway, now I suppose it's a documentation issue... ;-)

Have fun.

-sbi