"Re: [xml] Rigth way to recursively delete nodes (python/libxml2)"

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:55:14AM +0200, Terje Elde wrote:
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> > This would work fine for some situations, but can easily end up trying to free
> > a node already freed with one of it's parents.

>   yes it's easy to get stuck with this. I would say that your
> XML structure is really bizarre, having the same node names at various
> level looks a bit strange to me. 

If you mean the child axis: think of defining things like 
multi-dimensional arrays in XML + you want to save memory, thus omitting 
<items> elements as <item> holders. If you mean the 'descendant' axis, I 
rarely see a non-nesting HTML table nowadays - a forest of <td>.

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Kasimier