XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 12:48 PM -0700 7/18/03, Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> I tentatively made convert(Node) and convert(Element) public and 
> added a public convert(Attr) and it works fine for me.

I'm adding this into XOM now. This is hopefully the second to last 
API change before declaring XOM alpha quality (i.e. API freeze). One 
question came up:

What should convert(Attr) do with a DOM object that represents a 
namespace declaration? i.e. where the name is xmlns or xmlns:prefix? 
XOM does not represent such attributes as Attribute objects. Should 
convert throw an exception here or should it return null? Does anyone 
have a strong preference on this one way or the other?
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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