[jdom-interest] children as List

[Simon Harris]

IMHO A great idea. I'm a big fan of interfaces. Use interfaces wherever
possible.

Simon.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trebor A. Rude" <trebor at bwn.net>
To: "Cameron Smith" <cameron.smith at entranet.co.uk>; <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] children as List


> On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Cameron Smith wrote:
>
> >Another issue was ClassCastExceptions.  I think this is more an issue of
> >whether or not there should be a unified class hierarchy in JDom, so that
> >everything can be safely cast to 'Element', (like Node in DOM) than an
> > issue about where to put List behaviour.
>
> How about creating a tagging interface (like Serializable) instead of
> unifying the class hierarchy? This way, anything that wants to operate on
> just JDOM nodes (and not just a specific class of JDOM nodes) can be sure
> it's got one by testing for the tag. And it provides a useful place to put
> whatever functionality may be common (such as getParent()) if we do decide
> to unify the hierarchy.
>
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> Trebor A. Rude
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