[jdom-interest] Re: Comments on JDOM b10-rc1

[Bradley S. Huffman]

Jason Hunter writes:

> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> > At 12:04 PM -0800 2/11/04, Jason Hunter wrote:
> > 
> >> Well, Node would work (and Parent/Node is a better split than 
> >> Parent/Content) but if Document is not a Node that breaks the notion 
> >> of Node.
> > 
> > Document should be a Node. 
> 
> The idea has some merit.  Parent would be an interface, Node would be an 
> abstract class implemented by all nodes.

What's wrong with 2 interfaces, Parent and Node/Child/Content, and 2 non-public
abstract classes, AbstractParent and AbstractNode/AbstractChild/AbstractContent,
except that Element cann't extend both.  But that's not a big deal cause the
handfull of methods in Node/Child/Content are trival to implement.  The one
that might be difficult, getValue(), doesn't have a generic implementation
that can be shared between nodes anyway. 

Brad