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+<appendix xml:id="spl.datastructures" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+
+ <title>Datastructures</title>
+
+ <para>
+  SPL provies a set of standard datastructures. They are grouped here by their 
+  underlying implementation which usually defines their general field of 
+  application.
+ </para>
+
+ <section>
+  <title>Doubly Linked Lists</title>
+
+  <para>
+   A Doubly Linked List (DLL) is a list of nodes linked in both directions to 
+   each others. Iterator's operations, access to both ends, addition or 
+   removal of nodes have a cost of O(1) when the underlying structure is a DLL.
+   It hence provides a decent implementation for stacks and queues.
+  </para>
+
+  <itemizedlist>
+   <listitem>
+    <simpara><classname>SplDoublyLinkedList</classname></simpara>
+    <itemizedlist>
+     <listitem><simpara><classname>SplStack</classname></simpara></listitem>
+     <listitem><simpara><classname>SplQueue</classname></simpara></listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+   </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+ </section>
+</appendix>
+
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