XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Romain Deltour wrote:
> I think it would be really useful to allow subclasses override the 
> Attribute.getValue() method, here is a use case:

That's not going to happen. A nonfinal getter method would enable 
subclasses to violate the constraints on the object; for instance by 
returning null or a string that contains illegal characters.

I'm not convinced your use case is real as opposed to theoretical, but 
even if you did convince me of that; correctness trumps performance in 
the XOM value hierarchy.

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