[jdom-interest] Element Reference from Attribute

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rosen, Alex [mailto:arosen at silverstream.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 1:07 PM
> To: jdom-interest at jdom.org
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Element Reference from Attribute
> 
> 
> << Recently, as some of you know, I've been working on XInclude
> processors. This is the largest project I've tried to do in JDOM, and
> it's definitely changed my opinions about what is and isn't useful.
> At least in this use-case I'm seeing a lot more point to doing things
> the DOM way. >>
> 
> Hmm... I wonder if it's worth going down this slippery slope? 
> Is it a goal
> of JDOM to be able to easily support every use of XML? We've 
> seen the added
> requirements that XPath and XInclude bring; I wonder what added
> functionality will be needed for the next X* implementation 
> (XSLT, XQuery,
> etc).