[jdom-interest] Simplifications in Element

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:17 PM +0200 5/23/03, Mattias J wrote:
>Hi there.
>In our project I have made a sublass of org.jdom.Element to add some methods
>that make the use of JDOM even simpler. Maybe others find the useful too,
>and somebody would like to add them to the Element-class itself instead.
>

The problem is the Element class is already quite large and complex. 
Adding everyone's favorite convenience methods makes it more. Relying 
on subclasses as you've done here is a much more sensible approach. 
Those who need it can use it. Thoser who don't need it can ignore it.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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