Antw: RE: [jdom-interest] insertChild in Element

[Judith Andres]

They're absolutely right about that.

Judith

>>> "David W. Smiley" <dsmiley at mitre.org> 31.08.2000  16.01 Uhr >>>
I totally agree with what Tom Jenkins said:

> I don't think Element should implement List.  To my mental model,
> Element ->
> List is not an "is-a" relation, but rather a "has-a".
> 
> The line:
>         element.getChildren().add(newElement, 3);
> makes perfect sense. But the alternative line:
>         element.add(newElement, 3);
> just doesn't feel right.

	Also, I don't think JDOM should have both getChildren and be the list
itself.  This means there are two ways to do the same thing which I
think should be avoided in an API.  It's not like we have to support
backwards-compatible JDOM clients as JDOM isn't yet v1.0.

-- David Smiley

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