[jdom-interest] getProperty/setProperty on Parent

Bradley S. Huffman hip at cs.okstate.edu
Wed Feb 18 20:01:23 PST 2004


Jason Hunter writes:

> > Should Parent define getProperty/setProperty so extra info can be carried
> > with both Document and Element?
> 
> I was a little worried about carrying around an extra pointer on every 
> Element.  On every document, it's fine.  But every Element?  Course, if 
> we did that it'd be a place you could have a builder put a source line 
> number, base uri, and other extensible features.  Choose in your builder 
> which special data you want stored with each element.

To support base URI your going to have to carry at least a String reference,
so may as well be a Map.

Brad



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