[jdom-interest] Last call: getChild/getChildren versusgetChildElement/getChildElements

[Robin Rosenberg]

On Monday 09 February 2004 00:45, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 6:10 PM -0700 2/8/04, Alex Rosen wrote:
> 
> >I feel the same way about Parent and Content, if they're likely to
> >break any significant amount of user code. I haven't been following
> >closely enough to know if that's the case or not.
> 
> It wouldn't be likely to. These are very new with the latest beta. 
> Almost nobody is using these. Changing these class names at this 
> point would not be a problem.

The name Parent/Child do not break anything, but having the method
addContent return Parent instead of Element as it did in b9 breaks a lot of my code. 
The fact that these methods returned the type Element was very convenient (and I
see no reason for them to return anything, other than as a convenience measure.

-- robin