[jdom-interest] Last call: getChild/getChildren versus getChildElement/getChildElements

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:26 PM -0600 2/6/04, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

>But one is just a very restrict case of the other, so why have 2 ways of
>doing the same thing with two different interfaces when one consistent
>inferace is all that's really need?
>

The same reason you have any other convenience method: because it 
makes common operations a lot simpler. Plus in XOM, 
getChildElements() is a lot faster than getChildren() and then 
looking for the elements. I don't know if that's treu in JDOM or not.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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