Perhaps I do have a bigger issue (actually, I have LOTS of issues ;-), but the
reason I need to know the depth is my thought was to use that as a means of
assisting in layout.... for example, say you have the follwing xml:
<person name="Ted" title="director of the world">
<person name="Bob" title="deputy director of the world">
<person name="Jim" title="Manager - North America">
<person name="Sampson" title="Lead - Western States"/>
<person name="Sophia" title="Lead - Eastern States"/>
</person>
<person name="Sally" title="Manager - South America"/>
<person name="Sarah" title="Manager - Africa"/>
</person>
</person>
And you used this to create an organizational flow chart... my thought was to
use the depth to figure out where the names should go... I have thought about
how to do this 12,002 ways so my head is getting muddled....
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[flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks
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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] xml: counting parents
I think you mean ancestors. A node can only have one parent. Parents can have
many children.
I think you have a bigger issue, though. Why do you need to know the depth of an
xml node? I can't think of a single example that I would need that information.
On 3/22/2010 9:27 AM, Lehr, Theodore wrote:
> I am still trying to find a way to see where a child is within the xml - on
> what level... is it possible to count a nodes parents?
>
> So if I had:
>
> <person att="1">
> <person att="2">
> <person att="3"/>
> <person att="4"/>
> </person>
> </person>
>
> 1 would return that it has 0 parents, 2 would say it has 1 parent, 3& 4
> would say they have 2 parents....
>
> hope that makes sense....
>
> Ted
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