Magnus Lycka wrote: > We're using DOM to create XML files that describes fairly > complex calculations. The XML is structured as a big tree, > where elements in the beginning have values that depend on > other values further down in the tree. Imagine something > like below, but much bigger and much more complex: > > <node sum="15"> > <node sum="10"> > <leaf>7</leaf'> > <node sum="3"> > <leaf>2</leaf'> > <leaf>1</leaf> > </node> > </node> > <node sum="5"> > <leaf>5</leaf> > </node> > </node>
what's the typical overall structure for this tree ? is it short and wide, or tall and narrow ? or in other words, if you would extract all /node/node elements (that is, node elements just under the document root) from a large file, would you typically get a long list with small nodes, or a short list with a few large nodes ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list