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Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM

From "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM
Date 2015-08-08 04:50 +0200
Organization solani.org
Message-ID <mq3qpn$nn$1@solani.org> (permalink)
References <mo53os$am9$1@dont-email.me> <5530725.v0RXNFEj4j@PointedEars.de>

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On 15.07.2015 at 11:59, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> […]  And the proper approach here is iteration (walking the
> document tree), not recursion; because the stack size and/or nesting level 
> is limited (the Google Groups archive has test results), but an element’s 
> nesting level within a document tree is not.

Frankly, I do not get the point here.  Wouldn't the DOM implementation
have to *recursively* walk the DOM to find the desired elements as well?
 Of course, that would likely need less stack space than a recursive
*user-land* walk, but still be of the same order of magnitude.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 09:59 +0200
  Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 11:59 +0200
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 12:03 +0200
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 13:36 +0200
      Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-19 12:27 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-19 12:34 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 12:08 +0200
          Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-25 14:11 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-25 21:22 +0200
              Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-27 16:12 +0200
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-08 04:50 +0200
      Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-08 09:33 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-12 00:48 +0200
          Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-12 01:18 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-13 23:26 +0200
              Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-16 08:48 +0200
                Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-20 02:11 +0200
  Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 15:59 -0700
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 12:30 +0200
      Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-21 13:53 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 14:51 +0200
          Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-21 16:05 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 20:35 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 22:10 -0700
              Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-08-06 10:07 +0200
                Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-06 20:15 +0200
                Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-08-08 01:21 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 22:09 -0700
  Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 03:04 +0000
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-08-06 10:20 +0200

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