[jdom-interest] Element.setName

[Doug Lindholm]

Hi,

What's the status of the "missing" Element.setName? The latest I could
find in the archives (Mon, 26 Jun 2000) is below.

I'm contructing a Document in such a way that I don't know the name of
the Elements as they are being constructed. setName sure would be handy.

Thanks,
Doug


> Gabor Greif wrote:
> > 
> > Now I encountered a situation where call in Element.setName
> > would be the best soulution.
> > 
> > My alternative would be to add a new Element into the parent's contents at
> > the appropriate index and remove the old named Element from it.
> > 
> > This seem to be a rather heavy-weight solution to a simple problem and I
> > wonder if ther is a more elegant way to do this?
> > 
> > Should a Element.setName method be added?
> > Why was Element.setName not considered in first place?
> 
> Actually it was discussed, and was in the API, and was taken out... It
> was a long and painful process ;-)
> 
> Rather than try, I'm going to defer to Elliotte, who raised the most
> noise, and let him comment. Elliotte? Could you please summarize why you
> were against a setName on Element?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brett
> 

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