Hi Monks,

I want to take a tab-delimited file, and create a tree out of it. This is a continuation on a similar question I had a week or two ago. Anyway, each line in the file contains parent child columns, in addition to properties that pertain to the child. When constructing the tree, I want all properties from a parent to inherit (ie., overide) the children properties (with the exception of node description). For example, if a parent node had a property of hidden, I'd want any children marked as such.

Here's an example -- below I have node ids (parent, child), followed by the title (description) of the child. After that are additional properties of child:

Parent    Child    Desc    Property1    Property2

50    100    Apple    hidden    non-searchable

100    110    Granny Smith    Visible    searchable

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So in the above example, node id 110, aka 'Granny Smith', would keep its description, but have its other properties overwritten by what was in node 100.

I'd also like a way to indicate if a node was overwritten by its parent. Perhaps as an additional property.

Any tips appreciated.

In reply to Creating a tree from a parent child list, that also includes node specific properties... by bryank

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