XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:


>     public int indexOf(Node child) {
>
>         if (children == null) return -1;
>         if (child.getParent() != this) return -1;
>         // if (child.isNamespace()) return -1; // ??? Not sure

This test is not strictly necessary for the same reason a call to 
isAttribute is not strictly necessary: it will never be a child of an 
element so the subsequent call to indexOf will return -1. If for some 
reason, we thought that lots of people were going to pass namespaces or 
attributes to this method, we could add this, but I doubt it's worth it. 
I'd rather not have the extra line of code for the much more common 
times when something that is a child is passed.

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