[jdom-interest] Last call: getChild/getChildren versus getChi
ldElement/getChildElements
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Fri Feb 6 11:51:31 PST 2004
>Oh good, can getParent also be renamed to getContainer() so it is lexically
>consistent and also so I can extend Element and Implement MutableTreeNode
>at the same time (Swing programming would be so much easier)..
>
Parent is the term used in XML. I don't think the word container is
wrong, but it's very strange. Parent fits much more nicely here.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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