XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 10:33 AM +0200 9/19/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:


> - Element.add(): Why not addAttribute() as every other attribute- 
> and child-related method names have suffixes 
> (get/read/removeAttribute, append/insertChild, ...).


Mostly because I wanted to keep the name short. But maybe for 
consistency it should be addAttribute. On the other hand appendChild 
and insertChild could just be append and insert. On the gripping 
hand, the get and read and set methods really need the suffix because 
there's more than one thing clients might reasonably want to get. 
Thoughts?
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