[jdom-interest] insertChild in Element

[Simon Harris]

FWIW, Implementing List seems like a great idea to me.

Simon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo at metalab.unc.edu>
To: "Jason Hunter" <jhunter at collab.net>; "James W. Howe"
<jwh at allencreek.com>
Cc: "Brett McLaughlin" <brett.mclaughlin at lutris.com>;
<jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] insertChild in Element


> At 6:31 PM +0200 8/30/00, Jason Hunter wrote:
> >Then you need the ability to remove a particular child by index too.
> >And the ability to remove all children, remove a child by name, remove
> >all children with a name, add a set of children, remove a set of
> >children, and so on.
> >
> >All these things are easily done with the List returned by getChildren()
> >using standard Java APIs.  I think it's better to give people access to
> >the List for them to manipulate as they like than reproduce all the List
> >functionality in Element.
> >
>
> Lately I'm not so sure of that. Certainly, the getting the children
> and then operating on the list doesn't seem to be obvious. What if
> Element and Document implemented List instead of containing a List?
> Would this be more obvious? Would it be more closely reflect people's
> mental models of XML elements?
>
> It would be fairly easy to make the change. Just use the Proxy design
> pattern where the Element is the proxy for the partial list.
>
> On a related note, I'm also thinking that PartialList needs to check
> the types of the objects that are added to it. It shouldn't be
> possible to store a Frame or an InputStream or a File or a BigInteger
> or anything except the relevant JDOM types into the content of an
> element. Right now you can.
>
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