XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 2:03 PM -0500 9/25/02, Kevin Herrboldt wrote:

> How about methods that return a Set of attributes and namespaces? 
> You eliminate the specialized classes but still offer convenient 
> "snapshot" capabilities. Or maybe pattern it after, say, how 
> ThreadGroup works to get all threads into a Thread[].

That's not type-safe enough for me. It requires casting to actually 
use the objects in the Set. That's why I created the Attributes and 
Namespaces classes in the first place.
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