[jdom-interest] Important proposal: Element/Document changes

[James Duncan Davidson]

on 7/25/00 10:16 AM, Jason Hunter at jhunter at collab.net wrote:

> tsasala at hifusion.com wrote:
>> 
>> Two comments:  is it possible to deprecate the methods instead
>> of removing them?  We have application code that relies on JDOM, despite
>> the fact it is beta :).
> 
> I personally would be OK with deprecating for one beta round to give you
> time to change.  However, I'm firm there will be NO deprecated methods
> present in 1.0 final.

+++1!.

> Then the other method you propose would be addContentAt().  That's
> probably better as a Content form rather than Child form.  Hmm, we'd
> need five forms again to cover all bases.  What's the compelling common
> use case here?

And why aren't the collection based methods good enough for any of the use
cases?
 
>> I like the simplicity of getChildren/getChild over
>> getChildElement etc.
> 
> OK.  Others agree or disagree?

I'm cool with scrapping "Element" postfixes.

.duncan