[jdom-interest] Element Reference from Attribute

[Amy Lewis]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:06:54PM -0500, Rosen, Alex wrote:
>There is a whole world of uses for XML for which the current JDOM is very
>apt - simply reading, manipulating, and writing XML files, such as
>deployment descriptors and other data files. As we've seen with J2EE
>deployment descriptors, XML will continue to be a more and more popular way
>of storing structured data, and I think we need a dirt-simple API for doing
>this. My question is, for more complicated things, should we complicate the
>basic JDOM API, or should there be some things that just can't be done with
>JDOM?

Quite true, as others have also suggested.

It won't meet my needs, though, so even if it is useful in 80% of the
cases in the project I'm on, if it cannot handle, and cannot be
modified to handle, the harder 20%, then it won't be used at all.  A
simple matter of maintenance; we want one API.

Now, in the past week or two, there's been a move toward making the
core remain simple, but also making it easy to subclass.  In *that*
case, JDOM could end up in complex projects, handling the easy (with
core) and the hard (with specialized subclasses).  I'd hope to see
things move this way.

Amy!
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