question: NodeIterator in DOM

[Mike Champion]

At 11:19 AM 5/15/98 -0400, Akitoshi Yoshida wrote:
>in example:
>we have nodes A B C D E.
>the iterator is positioned just before C.
>remove C, D, and B.
>then we have A E and the iterator position should be
>positioned just before E.
>so toNextNode() and toPrevNode() should return E and A, respectively.

Yes.

>
>NodeIterator may mark its current iterator position by
>an integer offset or by an object reference. but it must
>be notified for certain insert and remove operations to
>preserve the above semantics. Is it correct?

I'm not sure.  There's been a lot of discussion of how to implement
NodeIterators on www-dom; see the archives at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/
I believe different designs exist, some of which require iterators to be
notified on insert and delete operations, and others which maintain
"markers" in the tree that move around as the tree is edited.  I have not
followed this closely enough to give you a definitive answer, but look at
the www-dom archives, and especially Don Park's SAXDOM implementation,
because Don participated in the discussions of this a couple of weeks ago
and I believe his latest release reflects what he learned.

Good luck,

Mike


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