XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 5:20 PM +0200 9/25/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:


> I don't understand: If you're thinking about replacing Attributes 
> and Namespaces by NodeList in the future, it makes no sense to 
> remove them and the corresponding methods in Element to add them 
> later.
> Unless you plan a 1.0 release without NodeList and wish to avoid 
> letting methods that will suffer incompatible changes in the next 
> releases.

No, it's just that if a client programmer does need to keep a 
snapshot of Attributes around, they could stuff them in a NodeList. 
I'm not planning on using this as part of the Element API.
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