XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 6:49 PM -0400 9/30/02, a student wrote:
> perhaps a read-only LeafNodes class like Elements
>
> and convenience methods getLeafNodeCount() etc. in Element
> rather than greping them out of ParentNode's getChild(int index)
> now that Leaf Nodes have moved to their own class
>
> or does this just bloat xom, and add to complexity/confusion?

What's the use-case? How would this help you? What could you do with 
this that you can't do now with getChildCount()/getChild()? All new 
methods and classes are bloat. The question is whether they're useful 
bloat.
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