XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 9:18 AM -0400 5/4/03, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

public Node removeChild(int position)
public Node removeChild(Node child)

One more point. Making removeChild(int) return the removed node is 
consistent with the remove(int) methods in java.util.List. However, 
the remove(Object) method in that list returns a boolean, an idiom I 
just hate. Methods that fail should throw an exception, not return 
false.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA