XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Mike Colbert wrote:
> Replying to myself ...
>  
> I just tried doing parent.indexOf (attribute), which returns -1.  This is because XOM doesn't consider attributes to be children of parent nodes.  I had not noticed this before.
>  
> Why is an Attribute a Node that has a ParentNode as a parent, as returned by attribute.getParent(), but at the same time it's not a child of a ParentNode, as returned by parent.getChild(n)?
>  

Because at one point in time the X in XOM stood for "XPath". This is a 
weirdness XOM inherits from XPath which also disinherits attributes. I 
argued against this in the early days of XPath, but I lost and probably 
rightly so. Weird as this is, it feels like the right model.


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