[jdom-interest] Element Reference from Attribute

[Louis Tribble]

Patrick Dowler wrote:
> In a singly-linked version, you could write a Builder that tried to share
> references to Attributes. In some cases, this could give a great advantage
> in memory consumption.

A builder may still be able to create shared attributes if Element were 
modified to clone and set a parent whenever it returned an attribute
(or some other copy on read scheme).

Louis
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