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12-03-2009, 07:06 PM

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]
I'm sure there are nicely documented patterns out there to do this ...

Without going hunting, I speculate you need to either tune your input data - order on parent, id - for example .. and/or you do a couple of passes of the data, making a big n-dimensional array on the first pass, which you may do an intermediary pass on to (recursively) sort, before you do the relatively straightforward rendering bit.

I looked at something similar a while back, but opted to pull a single element, all its ancestors (unlike your data I had a single root, which I think makes it easier) and its immediate progeny. Rendering a potentially infinite (or even just 'big') set of data just gets messy. Sure, you can put limits on .. but I reason it would be better to do this earlier in that process than at render time.

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