Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Sebastian Redl (sebastian.redl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-19 13:26:13

Trent Nelson wrote:

>What are your thoughts on this being included in your library?
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Number one (including) is already present, at least in the INFO format. 
With an XInclude or external parsed entity-capable XML processor, it 
would also be present in the XML format. Neither JSON nor INI have 
include capabilities, and neither do any of the special sources, of course.
However, it would be possible to write yet another parser for a format 
that has fancy include capabilities.

Bottom line, including is a feature of the storage format and its 
parser, not the property tree itself.

As for the second, value substitution, I think that should be an 
algorithm that you can apply to any tree. It will look up values of a 
special form and substitute them somehow. (By looking them up in the 
same tree, or perhaps by looking them up in another tree.)