XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 9:38 AM -0400 6/18/03, John Cowan wrote:


> How clever would this be?  If I returned an attribute, or text, where
> you expected an element, would it become an attribute of/part of the
> content of the parent element?  If so, this would be a Good Thing for
> architectural forms support.

Attributes are tricky. I can't really allow an Attribute to replace 
an Element without extra instanceof tests that are insanely 
expensive. Plus returning the attribute instead of an element, it 
would be very tricky to figure out the appropriate value of the 
attribute. I guess the factory would have to hang on to a reference 
to the Attribute object, and then accumulate text until it saw the 
end of the element, and then set the value. Messy, but doable.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
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