[jdom-interest] request for convenience methods

[Taylor , Patrick]

Actually, there is already a hasMixedContent() -- I was
suggesting isEmpty() to test for no content AND no attributes
(no, this wasn't clear from my original message).
Perhaps it's not such a good idea after all.

I think hasAttributes() is a good idea because it avoids
the overhead of creating a new PartialList on every call,
as getAttributes() does, even when there are no attributes.
Actually, why doesn't getAttributes() just return the
attribute list directly, instead of returning a new
PartialList containing all of the same attributes?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Hunter [mailto:jhunter at collab.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:16 PM
> To: Taylor , Patrick
> Cc: Jdom-Interest (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] request for convenience methods
> 
> 
> I'll add them to the TODO.txt as things to consider.  If people have
> opinions, speak up.  BTW, the existing way to do these cmds is:
> 
> elt.getAttributes().isEmpty()   // instead of hasAttributes
> elt.getMixedContent().isEmpty() // instead of isEmpty
> 
> -jh-
> 
> "Taylor , Patrick" wrote:
> > 
> > It would be nice if Element had the following convenience methods:
> > 
> > // for consistency with hasChildren(), hasMixedContent()
> > boolean hasAttributes();
> > 
> > // is completely empty? ie, "<ELEM/>" or "<ELEM><ELEM/>"
> > boolean isEmpty();
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