Re: [DOM4] Short and Efficent DOM Traversal

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Francois REMY
<francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:
> Cool to see my CSS Filter thing seems the less controversial part of the mix :-)
>
>> > - a new 'iterateBackwards' boolean field on TreeWalker/NodeIterator
>> > that would make any ES iterator call previousNode() instead of
>> > nextNode() when computing the next iteration (to make navigation
>> > possible in both direction using ES iterators)
>>
>> Not quite.  Let a TreeWalker be an iterable (an object
>> capable of producing an iterator).  Give it two methods,
>> nodes() and previousNodes().  Each return an ES iterator,
>> starting from the TreeWalker's current nod, going either
>> forwards or backwards in the DOM.  Then give it an
>> @@iterator attribute holding the nodes() method.
>
> I agree it provides a much better semantic and allow to create as many indepemdant iterators as needed but it also means I can't change the direction of progress during the iteration. Granted, if I want to do that, maybe for-of isn't the best option anyway and I can still use .nextNode() / .previousNode() manually like I do now. So, let it be that way.

Yeah, you can always just iterate manually if you want to skip back
and forth, so I don't think this is a big deal.

> For symmetry with the existing methods, I would call the two iterator-generating functions .nextNodes() and .previousNodes() whose .nextNodes() would have the newly defined [Iterator] attribute, but that's just my 2 cents ;-)

Sure.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 29 July 2013 02:44:18 UTC