Was this in reply to something? I'm confused. What do you suggest or is this a question?
-Andy On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 13:00, Ryan Ackley wrote: > Andy, > > I don't think that the java.util.TreeSet class will serve our purposes on > HDF. I've been trying to figure out how I can use it to do what I want and I > have been unable to do so > > The text, paragraph and section properties each have a start index and end > index. The index represents a position in the text body. A child property > will not necessarily end on a parent's bounds. For example, A paragraph may > go from 150-500, but there may be a character run that goes from 490 - 510. > There are two problems with the TreeSet class. First, if you want to > associate a set of character runs with a paragraph. There is no clean way to > get all runs that contain points between 150-500 that is inclusive of the > end points because there may be a character run that goes from 140-164. > > Second, when HDF will try to insert a property node in the tree, a node may > have to be split. If I use the tailSet function, the SortedSet it returns is > unable to accept an element that is lower than the element used to query. So > it would be impossible. > > Ryan > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com - software solutions for business http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document in Java http://krysalis.sourceforge.net/centipede - the best build/project structure a guy/gal could have! - Make Ant simple on complex Projects! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
