[jdom-interest] AttributeList or just List in Element?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

In the Element class the protected list of attributes is declared to 
have type org.jdom.AttributeList:

    /** The attributes of the <code>Element</code>. */
    protected AttributeList attributes = new AttributeList(this);

This bothers me because we're exposing a package-private class. For an 
implementation that's fine, but I think the interface should be 
documented. Would it be reasonable to declare this to just have type 
java.util.List? i.e.,

    /** The attributes of the <code>Element</code>. */
    protected List attributes = new AttributeList(this);

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