XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Nils Kilden-Pedersen" <nilskp AT gmail.com>]

Since Iterable is a Java 5.0 interface, how would it *not* break backwards
compatibility?

On 4/3/06, Cormac Blackwell <cormac.blackwell AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I was wondering if it would be possible to make the Elements class
> implement
> Iterable<Element>. I saw in the archives that you don't want to make
> Elements implement List as it would break backward compatibility (and
> wouldn't bring that much benefit). I think that implementing Iterable
> would
> be very simple and shouldn't cause any compatiblity problems but would
> make
> Java 5 code which iterates over Elements a lot nicer as the for-each
> syntax
> could be used.
>
> Cormac Blackwell
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