[jdom-interest] new element methods?

[Fabrizio Di Giuseppe]

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 1:17 PM, Eric VERGNAUD wrote:

> Maybe there could be a BasicElement, with a strict API, and a 
> RichElement
> with a more convenient API ?

I think the best solution for you is to subclass. Everyone has his 
requests about convenience methods. That requests are not the same for 
everyone. In the utility library I use exists a jdom Element subclass 
with up to 40 convenience methods. Most of that methods are generic 
utility methods. But I do not think that every one here would agree 
with the definition of that methods and the way they are implemented. 
And this is only a minor problem. Are these all the convenience methods 
that may be useful for everyone?

I know that subclass may be a problem in some cases, but that's the 
only way to add methods to a class conveniently.

At the end... java has nothing like Objective C categories :(

Bye