XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Elliotte Harold writes:

> Elliotte Harold wrote:
> 
> > My suspicion is that the proposed XPathNamespaceNode is *not* a subclass 
> > of nu.xom.Node. A lot of code would need to be reconsidered if I were to 
> > add an additional base node type.
> 
> There's a problem with this. The Nodes object returned by query can't 
> contain a non-Node (or rather it can, but the call to get() for that 
> node would throw a ClassCastException). Options
> 
> 1. Just make XPathNamespaceNode a subclass of Node.
> 2. Wrap the namespace node in something that can be returned, like an 
> Element in a particular namespace.
> 3. Just make the query method return a List instead of a Nodes
> 4. Add an additional query method, probably in a separate package, that 
> does return a List.
> 
> I don't like any of these solutions. 2 and 4, however, seem the least ugly.

What's the problem with #1?  If you offer no public constructors or
setters, and don't allow it to be detached what current code would
need to be reconsidered?

Brad