XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 2:29 PM -0500 9/25/02, Kevin Herrboldt wrote:


> What about Attribute[] and Namespace[], then? You'd have to add a 
> Namespace class, but that makes sense to me since a namespace in a 
> document has two parts, the prefix and the URI. It might even 
> simplify a lot of stuff elsewhere.


1. What's the use-case? Simplicity is an explicit goal of XOM, so I 
don't want to add lots of convenience methods unless they're very 
helpful.

2. In my experience with JDOM adding a Namespace class doesn't help a 
lot. I prefer to treat namespace prefixes and attributes as string 
properties of elements and attributes. I *may* have to revisit this 
when I add XPath support.
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