Fw: [jdom-interest] API inconsistency

[Brett McLaughlin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Friedman" <pfriedman at vis.com>
To: "Brett McLaughlin" <brett at newInstance.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] API inconsistency


> Brett,
>     Hello. I would like to help in this effort.
>     My first thought was to systematically go through the API
> package by package, assigning packages to 'takers'.
>     Also, I would like to understand your sense of the audit's
> scope. Please get in touch with me about this task and what you
> see to be the next steps.
>
> pax et bonum. p.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: [jdom-interest] API inconsistency
>
>
> > In documenting the API for the 2nd edition of my book, I've noticed
> several
> > inconsistencies. Like, some constructs have setParent() and some don't.
> Some
> > have getDocument(), some don't. Anyone want to volunteer an "audit" for
> > these sort of things? We would want to take all the common methods from
> all
> > the classes like Element and Attribute, and see what they are. I think
> we'll
> > notice some that are missing, like those above, on certain classes. We
can
> > then easily add them in, and be happy ;-)
> >
> > Takers?
> > -Brett
>
>