[jdom-interest] XML spec compliance/convenience (was Re: First impressions...)

Simon St.Laurent simonstl at simonstl.com
Sun Jun 11 12:53:23 PDT 2000


At 02:55 PM 6/11/00 -0400, I wrote:
>First, all of these need to be flagged as to whether they deliver content
>'the way the spec says' or 'the way we find convenient'.  Ideally, I'd like
>to see some addition to the javadoc that lists all of the spec-compliant
>methods and all of the alternative methods in a way that makes the
>distinction clear.

I'm not sure there are any other methods where deviation from the spec is
possible, so this suggestion of mine - the additional docs, at least - is
probably overkill.

Simon St.Laurent
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Building XML Applications
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