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[Markos Zaharioudakis <markos_za@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> > The size of XmlTree is not counted.
> 
> Right: because it's shared by all nodes in the tree.
> 
> > An instance of XmlTree is shared by all nodex in the same xml tree. Maybe
> the size of the XmlTree should be attribute only to the root node of the tree.
> 
> 
> The problem is infinite recursion.  If I ask for the size of a tree, it's the
> sum of all the nodes.  If the root node includes the size of the tree, then it
> will recurse infinitely.
> 
> - Paul

I don't understand the infinite recursion problem. What I have in mind is add an alloc_size() method to the XmlNode class, which will return 0 if the node is not a root, otherwise returm mem_sizeof(XmlTree).
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