> Switching from philosophical to practical (not that being
> philosophical is necessary a bad thing), is this a request to add new
> typedefs?

Depends on how much size independence you want between the different pieces
of code. I just know that things like DOMNodeList already return XMLSize_t
and that was really the kind of thing that I was referring to.

> E.g.: XMLCount_t, XMLLineCol_t, others...?
> What about those APIs that currently return 'int' because they use -1
> to signal 'not found'?

There's no requirement that the typedef be unsigned, but generally speaking
I'm not found of that kind of idiom myself. XMLString::indexOf for example
returns a position index, whereas I would have stuck with C idiom and
returned the pointer or NULL for not found. People that care just do result
- start if they need the position.

But I don't know all the places where you're doing that, that's just one
example I know of.

-- Scott



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