Hello, Berin! BL> Also, while it is trivial to append strings, pulling the string back BL> isn't so easy.
BL> For instance: BL> <root> BL> <component> BL> <item> BL> <element/> BL> </item> BL> <item> BL> <element/> BL> <item> BL> </component> BL> </root> BL> We can trivially add to the path up until we reach the first close tag. BL> At that time we have to rip off the current element's portion of the path. BL> While the logistics can be solved with using a stack, I would like to BL> avoid over-engineering this. Just of academical interest: there may some easier ways then using Stack, for instance a StringBuffer could be used. Flavour 1: when you need to rip off a path element and you know the length of the name of the element that has just been closed, you just shorten the sb by this length plus 1 (for the separator) Flavour 2: when you need to rip off a path element you just go searching the sb from back to the begging untill you find the next separator (the '/' char) and shorten the sb by that amount. With a StringBuffer the amount of memory used will be way less then for a Stack (in fact it will depend on the depth of the xml tree and the lenghes of element names). - Anton --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
