XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 11:38 PM -0500 3/9/04, John Cowan wrote:
> Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:
>
> >  Is it that you'd like an HTMLElement
> >  that could only be a child of an HTMLElement or an HTMLDocument, but
> >  could not be a child of a generic Document or Element?
>
> Exactly.

OK. I see what you're trying to do. How badly do you need to do this? 
And are you sure you want to do this? For instance, would your system 
be designed to handle pages of mixed HTML, SVG, and MathML? Would it 
handle HTML embedded in other applications? Would it handle 
well-formed but invalid pages like http://www.cafeaulait.org/ that 
deliberately use non-standard elements such as "today"? Writing a 
checkAttach method that only let html elements be attached to other 
html elements, would prevent all this; but maybe that's what you want 
to do.

The proposal is two extra methods, which I don't like; but they're 
protected which ameliorates the impact somewhat. Possibly I could 
leave them to 1.1. However, they're not hard to add now. I'm just a 
little worried that I might add them and no one will use them.  If 
you say, yes, you definitely want to use them and need them now, then 
I'm leaning toward adding them. They shouldn't get in anybody's way. 
However, if you're not quite sure yet, I'd prefer to leave them until 
someone definitely needs them.
--

  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