XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> One advantage to not distinguishing (everything is a Node): when we 
> do implement XPath then we can do more useful things with the 
> contents of the NodeList the location path returns without casting, 
> because the Node class has more methods.

Yes, I think this justifies keeping Attribute as a kind of Node.
Class Nodes, even if it doesn't exist just yet, will be a good thing
to keep maximally useful.  (I hate casts.)

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