[jdom-interest] Last call: getChild/getChildren versus getChi ldElement/getChildElements

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>Oh good, can getParent also be renamed to getContainer() so it is lexically
>consistent and also so I can extend Element and Implement MutableTreeNode
>at the same time (Swing programming would be so much easier)..
>

Parent is the term used in XML. I don't think the word container is 
wrong, but it's very strange. Parent fits much more nicely here.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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