[jdom-interest] getProperty/setProperty on Parent

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:15 PM -0600 2/18/04, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
>Should Parent define getProperty/setProperty so extra info can be carried
>with both Document and Element?
>

These methods struck me as exxtraneous fluff when I noticed them. 
Undefined properties do not reflect anything in the XML document 
that's being modeled. It's just a hack to enable users to stuff in 
any old data they forgot to put in the class. If somebody wants to 
add extra info a document it's easy enough to write a subclass that 
contains more detailed methods. That would be the correct object 
oriented way to satisfy the use-case.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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