XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

I'm also thinking that getFirstChild should go:

public void Node getFirstChild()

This is very close to getChild(0). The only difference is that 
getChild(0) will throw an IndexOutOfBoundsException if the element is 
empty and getFirstChild() returns null. I've commented out this 
method in my working copy and it seems very easy to do without. I was 
able to replace getFirstChild() with getChild(0) essentially 
everywhere it was used.

Right now I'm leaning toward taking out these three methods and 
replacing them with an indexOf method in ParentNode. That would 
remove three methods apiece from about ten classes and add one method 
to three classes, a net savings of 27 methods, a significant 
simplification. :-)
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