[jdom-interest] API Inertia

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:42 PM +0200 5/2/01, Noam Tamim wrote:

>What will Attribute.getChildren() return, null or an empty list?
>If it returns a List, then I can add() stuff to that list.
>


An empty list. We could easily make it throw an exception on any 
attempts to add to it.  Ditto for the lists returned by text nodes, 
comment nodes, etc.
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