Friday, November 4, 2005, 4:19:45 PM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
Assuming you are talking about the element class and its methods to add various child node types, I don't quite see how I could overload the function name 'append' and 'insert', as most versions have the same signature. E.g. 'insert_element("foo")' will add (and return) the element <foo/>
node.insert( element( "foo" ));
while 'insert_comment("foo")' will add (and return) the comment <!--foo-->
node.insert( comment( "foo" ));
That assumes you can create a freestanding 'element' and 'comment' object, which I deliberately try to avoid, as it would necessitate the API to become more complex.
I disagree - you have classes for different node types, but you don't use it for creating their instances. -- Regards, Janusz