<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>What you need is a way to override certain aspects of a transparent struct's behavior, e.g., printing. -- Matthias</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Doug Williams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">The main problem I see with transparent structures is that they are also inherently mutable. Some of the operation provided may well make use of that - for example removing whitespace. And, internally, it may be that the structures are created and then filled - as opposed to building the substructures and then creating the structure. I really haven't looked.<br>
<br>But, in a larger sense, it is what it is. The API provides transparent structures and there may be code that relies on it. I may even rely on it somewhere. So, leaving then as transparent is probably the best way to go - with prop:custom-write properties to limit the resulting print consequence.<br>
<br>Rewriting it could always be Neil T's next project. :)<br><br>Doug<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 4:06 PM, John Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Doug Williams wrote:<br>
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> The fact that transparent structures also print all of their element - in this case recursively, ad nauseam - is more of a side effect. In that case, I think prop:custom-write properties should be added. I assume any of the print limiting options in my case still walk the entire structure and create a several tens of megabytes long string just to truncate it.<br>
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</div>I see. I misread your first mail as suggesting that the XML structures should not be #:transparent.<br>
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