XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 9:22 AM -0800 3/26/04, Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com wrote:

> I still believe that you should think of some way to make it explicit,
> because there are use cases for both scenarios.
> If booleans are unacceptable, go with an enumeration, i.e.
> detach(Node.PRESERVE_BASE_URI), or something like that.


That's not going to happen. Wrong side of 80/20. Excessively 
configurable APIs are confusing, hard to learn, and hard to use. I 
will pick one approach or the other. Anyone who needs the alternative 
behavior can simply call setBaseURI after detaching the node. The 
question is what's the more sensible default.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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