[jdom-interest] new element methods?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:00 AM +0100 7/17/03, Phill_Perryman at Mitel.COM wrote:
I would agree if it were not for the fact that JDOM already has 
several convienience methods already, so if JDOM is prepared to have 
convenience methods then why not these.


In my opinion, JDOM has too many such methods already. However, the 
fact is every method you add makes the problem worse. Again, in 
isolation there's no problem with any of the methods you propose. 
Considered with he effect on the rest of the API though, it's a 
rapidly growing disaster. Everyone has their own favorite convenience 
methods. We simply can't provide or support them all, and if we 
tried, it would just make JDOM way too bulky and unwieldy to learn 
and use.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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