[x3d-public] getContainerField() [was cobweb DOM integration]

[Andreas Plesch]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Joe D Williams <joedwil at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> But containerField is also a rather unintuitive concept, requiring to
>> think 'backwards', eg. up the hierarchy.
>>
>
> It really helps to look at the X3D Classic and VRML encodings. Not really
> up the hierarchy except to verify that the parent can contain the following
> node.
>

I agree, it really helps to understand the VRML encoding although I am not
sure it is a good sign that one should do so to understand the XML encoding.

When I first looked at X3D, I remember that I decided to ignore the
containerField attribute due its apparent strangeness. It took to me some
time to understand that it has to do with the parent node (after some more
time understanding that child nodes are field values, eg. fields are not
necessarily attributes). Perhaps "parentField" would have been a more
straightforward name for this attribute.

-Andreas


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