XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 10:20 AM +0200 9/11/03, Hallvard Trætteberg wrote:


> The other part, handling detachment is also important. In JDOM I make my
> Element subclass override setParent, which gave access to both the old
> and new context. In this case, there is no need to actually change the
> original behavior, just ensure that custom code is run in this case. So
> detach may still be final, but any code that changes the parent could
> call checkParentChange(oldParent, newParent) or something similar.

Would just adding a checkDetach() method fill this need? This would
be a protected method called at the beginning of each detach() much
like checkInsertChild and checkSetName and such are now.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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