[jdom-interest] How to ease traversal of JDOM tree

[Laurent Bihanic]

Salut, Sébastien,

Sébastien Pierre wrote:

> But I don't understand why this would change the JDOM API? I think we 
> shouldn't modify method return types or behaviour, ...


Well, this a constraint from the Java language: If you implement a method 
defined in an interface, you can't change its return type.

Introducing the proposed interface would change the JDOM API by chaning the 
return type of some methods.
For example, the addContent() method of Element currently returns the Element 
itself to allow chaining method calls:
    elt.addContent(a).addContent(b).addContent(c).getNamespace();

With the proposed interface, addContent would return a Node and the above line 
would have to be broken into the following 2 lines:
    elt.addContent(a).addContent(b).addContent(c);
    elt.getNamespace();

Laurent