[jdom-interest] insertChild in Element
David W. Smiley
dsmiley at mitre.org
Thu Aug 31 07:01:32 PDT 2000
I totally agree with what Tom Jenkins said:
> I don't think Element should implement List. To my mental model,
> Element ->
> List is not an "is-a" relation, but rather a "has-a".
>
> The line:
> element.getChildren().add(newElement, 3);
> makes perfect sense. But the alternative line:
> element.add(newElement, 3);
> just doesn't feel right.
Also, I don't think JDOM should have both getChildren and be the list
itself. This means there are two ways to do the same thing which I
think should be avoided in an API. It's not like we have to support
backwards-compatible JDOM clients as JDOM isn't yet v1.0.
-- David Smiley
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