XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Markus Jais <markus_jais AT yahoo.de>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 18:14, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> I'm currently making a push to finish up the last few API issues in 
> the XOM TODO list so I can move from a development release to an 
> alpha release. The goal is that once I declare XOM alpha there won't 
> be any breaking API changes without a very good reason.
> 
> One of the changes I'm considering making before that point is 
> changing the name of the NodeList class to Nodes. This has several 
> advantages:
> 
> 1. Consistent with Elements and Attributes
> 2. No confusion or conflict with the DOM NodeList interface
> 3. Does not incorrectly imply that a NodeList is a java.util.List
> 
> Downside:
> 
> 1. It's somewhat harder to distinguish in speech, especially for 
> non-native speakers. It may not always be clear whether I'm talking 
> about a Node or Nodes object.
> 
> Thoughts?


I think the advantages outweigh the downside. I too am not a native
speaker (my native tongue is german) but I think it is easy enough to
distinguish Node and Nodes. and most people using XOM will read the
documentation and not hear about it.

just my thoughts.

Markus

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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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