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Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining

From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Stefan Matthias Aust <sma AT 3plus4.de>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:43:04 -0400

At 9:27 AM +0200 8/17/04, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:

I'd love to use var-args for element construction

Element element(String name, String... namesAndValues) {
...
}

but I'm not yet on 1.5.

1.5 is different enough that it might call (one day, not today) for a redesigned XOM API that takes advantage of its features like generics and enhanced for loops. The lack of generics in particular was a major driver in the XOM API. When I was talking about XOM Design Principles at Extreme Markup Languages in Montreal a couple of weeks ago one of the C++ people in the room kept saying, "But you could do this so much more simply if you used templates" and I had to keep reminding him that in Java I didn't have the option to design around templates. :-(
--

Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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[XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Wolfgang Hoschek, 08/16/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/16/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Wolfgang Hoschek, 08/16/2004
- Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Stefan Matthias Aust, 08/17/2004
  - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) should return "this" for chaining, Elliotte Rusty Harold, 08/17/2004
    - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) shouldreturn "this" for chaining, passani, 08/17/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) shouldreturn "this" for chaining, Stefan Matthias Aust, 08/17/2004
      - Re: [XOM-interest] RFE: Element.appendChild(String text) shouldreturn "this" for chaining, John Cowan, 08/17/2004