If we are jQuery, let's be jQuery...

[gregglind]

in that we have:

• search / selectors
• chainable methods (parent, children)
• modification (text, content, etc)

For not, this is YAGNI, but a possible way forward is:

• instead of the things themselves, store the paths to the things, in the object. The means parent() operates like this:

  def _parent(selector,path):
  # straw implementation
  return path[:-1]

This requires some thinking about how what is analogous to various jQuery methods.