Either/or is fine, a pull request can be slightly simpler if you're working
of the current master.

 -c

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Jarmo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to make a pull request soon or submit a patch, whichever is
> more preferable. Unfortunately i'm kinda busy with school at the
> moment so it won't happen right away.
>
> I think that #th method would be great, but just for searching
> elements. For exclusion, you can use regular Array methods like #shift
> or #delete_at.
>
> Jarmo
>
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Alan Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Jarmo -
> >
> > I'm looking forward to looking at your code, but while I'm thinking
> > about it, you said:
> >
> >> Also, as a sidenote, there has to be something changed with tables
> >> API, because other methods won't work with nested tables correctly and
> >> the question is of course, how would
> >> be the correct behaviour :)
> >
> > This was a recent fix in 1.6.5 to make the table itterator always use,
> > in your parlance, max_depth = 1.  This was added because the itterator
> > was using the normal row_count method, which returns the count of all
> > <tr>'s regardless of whether they were an immediate child of the table
> > or not.  Thus, if you are itterating on a table with nested tables,
> > you would have to rescue (at least) the itteration to keep your script
> > from crashing.
> >
> > I submit that this should be the default behavior.  I think that
> > rarely what you want is to really get "all" of the <tr>'s in a nested
> > table and if that is what you want, it's probably not the most common
> > use case.
> >
> > Also, I think that it would be really nice to have a .th method for
> > tables as well, or a way to exclude them from itteration.  Most of the
> > time, when I am processing a table, I really want to just look at the
> > "data" rows, or sometimes just the header.  You can easily accomplish
> > this if your devs have put sensible class names for the table rows,
> > but if they are using the <th> tags anyway, being able to use them
> > will give a certain amount of robustness against changes to the class
> > names.
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
> >
> > Alan
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