XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Is anyone using LeafNode for anything? Would anybody be horribly 
inconvenienced if it disappeared? I was looking at it yesterday, and 
it really is mostly an implementation detail designed to avoid code 
duplication in a few classes; but my experience is people pay more 
attention to it than it deserves; and I should probably just push the 
two methods it has (getChild() and getChildCount()) down into the 
four subclasses (Text, ProcessingInstruction, Comment, and DocType). 
I doubt any code would break unless someone is doing instanceof 
LeafNode somewhere.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA