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new( parent = nil ) public

Constructor. Any inheritors of this class should call super to make sure this method is called.

parent:

if supplied, the parent of this child will be set to the supplied value, and self will be added to the parent

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# File lib/rexml/child.rb, line 17
                def initialize( parent = nil )
                        @parent = nil  
                        # Declare @parent, but don't define it.  The next line sets the 
                        # parent.
                        parent.add( self ) if parent
                end

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