Information about node position in parent

Hi, I was trying to use Gumbo.jl to manipulate the DOM by changing tags and content of nodes. However, I am confused with some code.

doc = parsehtml("""
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <span>this is a span 1</span>
        <div>
        <h1>this is a heading</h1>
        <span>this is a span 2</span>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
""");

If I wanted to change/ replace the first <span> node to a <abc> node

julia> elem = doc.root[2][1]
HTMLElement{:span}:
<span>
  this is a span 1
</span>

The following does not work

julia> elem = HTMLElement{:abc}(elem.children,elem.parent,elem.attributes)
HTMLElement{:abc}:
<abc>
  this is a span 1
</abc>

julia> doc
HTML Document:
<!DOCTYPE >
<HTML>
  <head>
    <title>
      Title
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <span>
      this is a span 1
    </span>
    <div>
      <h1>
        this is a heading
      </h1>
      <span>
        this is a span 2
      </span>
    </div>
  </body>
</HTML>

I have to assign this in the parents children for it to work. For which I have to know the position of the node in the parent node.

elem.parent.children[1] = HTMLElement{:abc}(elem.children,elem.parent,elem.attributes)

julia> doc
HTML Document:
<!DOCTYPE >
<HTML>
  <head>
    <title>
      Title
    </title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <abc>
      this is a span 1
    </abc>
    <div>
      <h1>
        this is a heading
      </h1>
      <span>
        this is a span 2
      </span>
    </div>
  </body>
</HTML>

Is this behavior intended? I thought both parents children and the child node should point to the same location.

Also I see that the information about position in parent is present in index_within_parent. I was wondering if it would be possible to add this information for each node in addition to parents children and attributes. If we have this information then we could overcome the above issue.

struct Node{T}
    gntype::Int32  # enum
    parent::Ptr{Node}
    index_within_parent::Csize_t
    parse_flags::Int32  # enum
    v::T
end

Please let me know your thoughts or if I am approaching this entirely in the wrong direction. Is there a more straight forward way to manipulate the Nodes?

JuliaWeb / Gumbo.jl

Information about node position in parent #73