[XML-SIG] Future plans

[Paul Prescod]

Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> ....
> 
> I solve the problem in qp_xml by avoiding it altogether :-)  The output
> elements of qp_xml does not contain a parent reference. I've found that
> the application always knows the parent anyhow since it had to traverse
> down thru the parent in the first place. 

In most complicated XML document types you will follow references or
links to an object and the underlying systems handes the traversal. You
could create "smart pointers" that maintain parent knowledge but that's
pretty messy and inefficient.

 Paul Prescod