Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I'll propose that a single enumeration should be used, and should > define the names that are defined for TreePosition, but perhaps call > it TreeOrder. That type can be used for both compareDocumentOrder() > and compareTreePosition(). "Tree order" doesn't seem to capture the meaning like "tree position" does. The distinction in names is intentional. While ancestors and descendants have order within a document using conventions of document order (which start tag was encountered first), they have no sequential order within a tree hierarchy. Being an ancestor or a descendant does not feel like "order" to me, but rather relative position of the nodes, which can be in one of four directions. Ray Whitmer rayw@netscape.comReceived on Friday, 22 December 2000 14:28:19 GMT
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