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[Bradley S. Huffman]

Jason Hunter writes:

> Hmm, I'm still thinking we need a method like getParentElement(). 
> Returns the parent Element or null if root or unattached.  It could be 
> added to Child.  Then you could call 
> getParentElement().getParentElement()...

Only if your absolutely sure there will always be a non-null object returned
for each call.  "If it cann't be broken, users will find a way to break it".

> Then all b9 getParent() calls can be moved to getParentElement() calls 
> in b10.  I think getParent() has to continue returning a Parent just to 
> be sensible.
> 
> Thoughts?

Then you'd have 3 different methods for moving up the tree getDocument,
getParent, and getParentElement. May as well throw in getRootElement
and getParent(int level) ;-)

Brad