[jdom-interest] Re: Radical Suggestion
bob mcwhirter
bob at werken.com
Mon Jul 29 12:18:35 PDT 2002
> >These methods will never be used internally when building documents
> >from text XML documents but could prove useful to many.
> >
>
> Who? What use-case could you possibly have for such a thing? How
> often do you actually want to match a local name in any namespace? I
> do not believe this is in any way helpful. In fact, I think it's
> actively harmful.
Ick, I agree. That'd be akin to something like having:
Class.forNameThatEndsWith(String suffix)
-bob
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