XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Kevin Herrboldt <kevin AT puppethead.com>]

On Wednesday, Sep 25, 2002, at 15:05 US/Central, Elliotte Rusty Harold 
wrote:

> 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
[...]
> 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.

I've given it some more thought and I find I agree with you. Adding 
methods to return an enumeration of some sort of all elements or 
namespaces doesn't add value that I can think of. Just because 
something can be done doesn't mean it should be.