[jdom-interest] (no subject)

Bradley S. Huffman hip at csa.cs.okstate.edu
Thu May 29 19:23:57 PDT 2003


Hmmm, when you go to get more ice tea, make sure you hit save, not send :)
Sorry about that, here's what little was left.

> And in Element, getChild() returns an Element, but getParent() return a
> Parent. Seems inconsistent,

The now deprecated getChildren/getChild methods where always a bit confusing 
since DOM uses "children" to mean all mixed content, i.e. elements, comments,
text, pi, and so forth, and JDOM had getChildren return a list of only
elements. Consequently users would use getChildren to get a list and then
wonder where all they text nodes or other nodes went. Hence the name change
to getChildElement/getChildElements to empathize that they always return
elements.

Brad



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