Re: [xml-dev] Representing binary trees in XML … flat versus recursive

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 2:20 PM Costello, Roger L. <[email protected]> wrote:

 

Yes. that's it. You can dispense with binary-tree as well and just use root-node.

 

I think it does.  Your design has node as the sole child of left-child and right-child. I am just talking about merging their functions into a single element, one that says it is a node *and* which child it is.  If you knew there would never be any nodes with just one child, you could use just node elements and let ordering do the work (left first, right second), but that limits the applicability.

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