XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

Cass Costello wrote:
> What are the disadvantages you see, Elliotte?

Incompatibility with everyone still on 1.4 is the big problem.

It would also needlessly duplicate functionality in the API. In XOM 
there's exactly one way to do it, and Iterator isn't it. Use a NodeList.

Finally, you'd have to figure out what to do about the remove() 
operation. I don't think there's a good answer for that.

XOM quite deliberately does not expose overly generic collections APIs 
that don't perfectly fit the problem space. I don't intend to start now.

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