- From: Alexander Holupirek <alexander.holupirek@uni-konstanz.de>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:05:22 +0200
- To: expath@googlegroups.com
- Cc: EXPath <public-expath@w3.org>
On 15.04.2014, at 13:22, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote: >> 1) I find odd to name anything children in a tree environnement like XML > > Personally, I find it particularly well suited to talk about children > in a hierarchical file system environment. What do you exactly regard > as confusing here? What do you think about the existing file:parent() > function, which we see as the counterpart for this new function? I agree with Christian and think it's quite common terminology when dealing with file hierarchies. See for instance the fts(3) functions on Unix systems which are provided for traversing file hierarchies: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fts.3.html In addition there are useful components, such as fts_accpath A path for accessing the file from the current directory. fts_path The path for the file relative to the root of the traversal. fts_parent A pointer ... referencing the file in the hierarchy immediately above the current file ... .... which could be taken as an established reference when designing a file module. All the best Alex
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