Accessing children with index rather than name

[slavidodo]

Ok, in pugixml you can easily do something like: for (pugi::xml_node& node : root.children()) { ... }

This is useful if you want the nodes in order. My case is that i am using xml to handle some ui elements, so the order of the elements must be known in order to view them correctly.

<contents>
   <label>Some text</label>
   <image source="logo.png" />
   <textarea placeholder="..." />
   <label>Enjoying?</label>
</contents>

Current behaviour

root.contents.label -> table (n=2)
root.contents.image -> table (n=1)
root.contents.textarea -> table(n=1)

Expected behavior

-- same as above
-- also
root.children -> ordered children

This doesn't use more memory since tables in lua are actually passed by ref. So children table will just have a reference to the original tables sorted by element name.

[slavidodo]

This is done already in the dom element.

[manoelcampos]

Maybe you got the order defined in the XML file just by change. Lua pairs function defines an arbitrary order to iterate over the table elements when they don't have a numbered index.