Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: Janusz Piwowarski (jpiw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-05 15:38:29

Friday, November 4, 2005, 4:19:45 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

>>>Assuming you are talking about the element class and its methods to add
>>>various child node types, I don't quite see how I could overload the
>>>function name 'append' and 'insert', as most versions have the same
>>>signature. E.g. 'insert_element("foo")' will add (and return) the
>>>element <foo/>
>>
>>    node.insert( element( "foo" ));
>> 
>>>while 'insert_comment("foo")' will add (and return) the comment
>>><!--foo-->
>>
>>    node.insert( comment( "foo" ));

> That assumes you can create a freestanding 'element' and 'comment' object,
> which I deliberately try to avoid, as it would necessitate the API to become
> more complex.

I disagree - you have classes for different node types, but you don't
use it for creating their instances.

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Regards,
Janusz