[jdom-interest] Re: Element Reference from Attribute

[James Strachan]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Bowbeer" <jozart at csi.com>

> I like the idea of making the fully-functional classes the default.

Agreed. I've made it so in my JDOM patch.

> I'm not excited about seeing a lot of changes to JDOM at this late-beta
> stage, ...

I agree with Patrick's point - now's the time to get these things right,
before the 1.0 release. We're not talking about a massive change here
either.

When I turned Element / Attribute / et al into singly linked and all the
leaf nodes immutable, I ran all the sample programs and they all worked
without any changes at all. Same is true for the org.jdom.output package. It
seems to be quite a small set of users who explicitly use upward tree
navigation or do explicit leaf node mutation.

> but I would vote for enhancing the default classes with the
> additional navigational capabilities needed for XPath.

I've integrated XPath into my dual JDOM tree patch. I'll post a URL to it
soon.

> By the way, what advantages would a low-memory version of JDOM have over
> KDOM?

Well for a start the most of the API of singly linked and doubly linked JDOM
is identical, most of the code is reused and auxillary code is shared across
both. Implementing a dual tree has only a small impact on the number of
classes and API complexity. KDOM appears to be a whole different kind of
thing to me.


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