XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>]

"Bradley S. Huffman" writes:

> Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
> 
> > The fields can still be private. However the accessor/mutator methods 
> > don't have to be final. They can call the superclass methods to make 
> > their changes. As long as the fields remain private and the accessor 
> > methods are final, this would not enable anyone to violate the 
> > fundamental class invariant of well-formedness. Subclasses could 
> > override insertChild, setLocalName, etc. without being able to bypass 
> > the well-formedness checks.
> 
> Unless they do
> 
>     private String myLocalName;
> 
>     public void setLocalName(String localName) {
>         myLocalName = localName;
>     }
> 
>     public String getLocalName() {
>         return myLocalName;
>     }

Hmm, what if only all getter where final? A subclasser could then pull a trick
like the one above, but not do much with it.

Brad