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

[Brett McLaughlin]

Jools Enticknap wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Brett McLaughlin wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Jools Enticknap wrote:
> > >
> > <snip-lots-of-agreement />
> > >
> > > But what about;
> > >
> > > List getAttributeValues(String name)
> > > List getAttributeValues(String name, Namespace ns)
> >
> > ?? attributes must be unique for an element. Can't have two.
> 
> OK then I should not be able to do;
> 
> Element e = new Element("test");
> e.addAttribute("foo", "bar");
> e.addAttribute("foo", "bar");
> 
> Without the second call throwing an exception ?

Right now, that's a good question - we need to look into that (Jason,
can you add that to TODO, and I'll check for it?)

> 
> Would'nt the resultant XML be ?
> 
> <foo foo="bar" foo="bar"/>
> 
> Which as you say is a no-no.

Correct.

-Brett

> 
> <snip-answered-queries />
> 
> --Jools

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