source code management

[SF Markus Elfring]

Hello,

Your software implements an interface to the document object model. I am interested in your implementation for the specification from the section "1.1.4. Inheritance vs. Flattened Views of the API" of the standard.
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-1CED5498

Can this software part be extracted as a component? Does a library exist for this purpose already?
Can you imagine to reuse it for source files of programming languages? I think that a mapping between a "flat" node interface and a view as an inheritance hierarchy can be provided for abstract syntax or semantic resolution trees.
Examples:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspector_(program)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCxx
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4092526&forum_id=11832 (C++ management extension)

Did anybody try also to integrate it with a virtual file system?

How do you think about this idea?

Sincerely,
Markus Elfring