[jdom-interest] Attribute types

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>How is this feature necessary for implementing XPath, XPointer, XSLT --
>yet still not present in DOM which supports those technologies?
>

DOM doesn't support these. XPath and all XPath dependent technologies require something beyond DOM. They can start with a DOM Document but they need to augment it to identify ID attributes at the very least.
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