On 11 Dec 2001, Christian Nentwich wrote:
> > I thnk its based on the StackIterator, which calls for the parent
> > iterator, and then that object's parent, and then that object's
> > parent, and so forth.
> >
> > Ancestor ends up being just a synthesis of the Parent axis recursively
> > applied. It's one of those axes that you get 'for free' when you
> > provide a parent axis iterator.
>
> Ah, that explains a lot, including the performance problem :) The paths
> involving ancestor:: were the *only* paths that were slower in Jaxen
> (than in Xalan).
>
> I'll write a native ancestor iterator for DOM ASAP..
Great!
We'll probably crib from you and have native ones for the other
models also, but keep the current freebie implementation for
bootstraping as-of-yet-unknown models that might want Navigators.
-bob
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