[jdom-interest] Re: Ideas for API changes

[D Gross]

Jason Hunter wrote:
> Here's my challenge to you:  Figure out the interface of Item.  Keep
in
> mind that any method declared should be useful across all classes
> implementing the interface.  And keep in mind the interface should
be
> useful for more than just being a common base interface.  Object is
good
> enough at being a common base; there would need to be extra value.

Making only Attribute and Element implement an Item interface seems more
natural.  Then the obvious methods in common would be: getName(), getType(),
getValue(), setValue().  Of course, mixed content in elements makes this
more complex.

Then when JDOM includes more schema validation support, we could have
getValidValues() and setValueWithValidation() as a start.

-- Dave
D Gross
justdave at onebox.com


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