XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[dirk bergstrom <dirk AT juniper.net>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold expounded at length upon:
> Is anybody using the insertBefore and insertAfter methods heavily? If 
> so for what applications?

i'm not using them at all.

> Does anyone feel strongly about these methods? Do I need to keep them 
> as conveniences even though their functionality could be provided in 
> terms of the indexOf() and insertChild(int i) methods?

i have no burning desire for them.  but i'm doing really simple xml.

otoh, i'm totally wedded to appendChild() -- i use it 145 times in 1045
(non-commentary) lines of xml-related code.  trying to keep track of the
index (for insertChild(int i)) would make me very unhappy...

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