[jdom-interest] Abstracting interface to JDOM nodes.

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:50 PM -0600 8/25/00, Trebor A. Rude wrote:
>	I want to write getSerializedForm() for Element.  However, to 
>do this, it
>needs to be able to call getSerializedForm() on its children. This can not
>easily be done since the children vary in their type, and don't implement
>a common interface. I propose such a common interface be created, an
>equivelent of Node in the org.w3c.dom package. I'm willing to do the work,
>but I'd like comments from the crowd as to whether or not this is a good
>idea, and if so, what should and shouldn't go in such an interface.
>

1. getSerializedForm() is going away to be replaced by the 
XMLOutputter class. Don't use it or waste your time on it.

2. You don't need a common interface. instanceof works just fine for 
this use case.

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