Johan was asking:

What is meant by "strategic traversal automata". Can
you explain/rephrase?

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The purpose of a traversal automaton is to specify an object traversal 
in terms of a class graph. (This might clash with your view of
a traversal automaton)

The purpose of a strategic traversal automaton is to specify an object  traversal 
in terms of a strategy graph of the class graph. 

A traversal strategy graph together with a class graph defines 
a few "default" traversal automata. For example, strategy graph order
versus class graph order or left-to-right versus right-to-left.

If we need a more detailed traversal, we write a strategic
traversal automaton of the form:

strategy-node1
   strategy-edge1
   strategy-edge3
   strategy-edge2
   strategy-edge4

strategy-node2
   strategy-edge7
   strategy-edge7

Strategic traversal automata reclaim the structure-shyness
somewhat lost by traversal automata.

Whatever good ideas you and Mitch have for traversal automata, I think
also carry forward to strategic traversal automata. (That is what I hope :-)

-- Karl