XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 10:32 AM +0200 9/19/02, Hallvard TrÊtteberg wrote:

> As a start I've written a Swing TreeModel for XOM, which was fairly easy (as
> for JDOM). There were two kinds of methods I missed, one for returning the
> number of Element children of an Element (without going through Elements
> getChildElements),

What don't you like about element.getChildElements().size()?

> the other for Element lookup, e.g.
> Element.indexOfElement(Element e) or TreeNode.indexOfNode(Node n), to find
> the position of a child node.

Can you be a little clearer about the use-case for this one? It seems 
to me that it's a bit of a special need. Since it can be done in a 
utility method provided by client code or in a special purpose 
subclass that adds this functionality, I'd rather not add it to the 
core API unless I see a *lot* of call for it.

I can see that this might be useful in JDOM because of its list-based 
navigation. However, in XOM the examples I can think of could be 
better handled by getNextSibling()/getPreviousSibling() without 
needing to know the exact index.
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