[jdom-interest] Why don't Comment, Element, Text, etc extend common jdom object?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>Can anyone think of a way for either detach() or Iterator::remove() to be
>legal?
>

DOM tree walkers and node iterators have no problem with this use 
pattern. However, they don't use the collections API. Off the top of 
my head, I can't see how to make this work without ditching the 
Collections API and rolling our own; but then I don't really know a 
lot about the Collectios API so maybe it's possible.
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