XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 4:39 PM -0400 9/28/02, John Cowan wrote:

> That reminds me.  I think it is *very important* that all XOM methods
> document the big-O time they require, so that XOM clients are not in
> the position of Alan Perlis's Lisp programmers, who know the value
> of everything and the cost of nothing.
>
> For example, ownerDocument should say "Requires time O(d), where d
> is the depth of this object within its document tree."

I'll have to think about how to do that. I can see where that would 
be helpful.It would be nice if JavaDoc had an @cost tag. Maybe a 
custom doclet.

However, I'm not willing to commit to any such numbers, probably not 
even at 1.0. I can easily see them changing if the underlying 
implementation changes.

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