- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:40:15 -0500
- To: David Brownell +ADw-david-b+AEA-pacbell.net+AD4, +ACI-www-dom+AEA-w3.org+ACI +ADw-www-dom+AEA-w3.org+AD4
David Brownell wrote: > Perhaps. If you got used to using it, the linked list implementation > would accumulate some bizarre costs since it'd need to recompute that > property pretty often ... but that'd be more reasonable than asking for > a specific "is this child before that one" primitive, as you'd seemed > to be suggesting! Furthermore, if the element is part of an entity, then no single index will work, as the element node may be in the tree in multiple places. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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