Re: Adding or modifying by path

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Hans Gerwitz wrote:
> I'm desperate for an approach to add
> an element to the result tree (which is otherwise a copy of the input tree)
> without adding any unneeded "duplicate" elements.  E.g.:
> 
> adding /a/b/c with a value of 'foo' to input:
> 
> <a>
>  <b>
>   <c>42</c>
>  </b>
> </a>
> 
> or to:
> 
> <a></a>
> 
> should *both* prepare:
> 
> <a>
>  <b>
>   <c>foo</c>
>  </b>
> </a>
> 
> with any other content and structure preserved.  This is trivial to
> describe

I hope I'm not the only one here who has absolutely no idea what
non-trivial thing you are trying to do. :) What is the input, what is
the output, what do you mean by /a/b/c and how does that relate to the
input and output? Where are the 'duplicates' you speak of?

   - Mike
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