[BioRuby] [Wg-phyloinformatics] Bioruby PhyloXML: method for iterating to the next tree, without returning anything

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Jun 15, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Christian M Zmasek wrote:

> Although, it will only be useful if the order of the trees is known
> beforehand (i.e. you know you want the 5th tree).

Right - I recognize that this would be useful for your unit testing,  
but frankly I'm not sure what the "normal" use case for this function  
would be.

> Something to think about (if you have enough time): Since trees in
> phyloxml can have names and/or ids -- what about having the parser
> return trees with a matching name/id? E.g. from a file with 100 trees
> return those named "erk gene tree".

I agree, being able to pass a filter function (e.g., one that accepts  
the unparsed XML and returns true or false?) would indeed be pretty  
useful.

	-hilmar
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