XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com>]

On 2/15/06, Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> Romain Deltour wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Elements and Nodes classes don't have any method to get a
> > java.util.Collection representation of their content. Could you please
> > tell me the reasons why this feature wasn't implemented ?
> >
>
> Because it's way on the wrong side of 80/20. It's simple enough to do
> this yourself if you need to. I'm not going to put a method in XOM for
> everything anyone might ever need to do.

Romain,

Like Elliotte says, its easy to do

If you are curious, I have java5 iteration bound to it
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartfrog/core/extras/cdl/src/org/smartfrog/sfcore/languages/cdl/dom/ElementEx.java?view=markup
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartfrog/core/components/xml/src/org/smartfrog/services/xml/java5/iterators/

This lets me go

for(Node n:element) {
}

I'd like an Element iterator that only iterates over child elements,
but am too lazy to implement the class and tests, so make do without
it.