on 8/2/01 12:36 AM, "Szegedi Attila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I gave some more thinking to Anakia redesigning yesterday, and I thought
> it's just not elegant the way I originally made it. I SHOULD be able to
> preserve backward compatibility. Finally, I figured out how could I
> incorporate the new functionality WITHOUT losing backward compatibility.
> Basically, I'll subclass the org.jdom.Element to have applyXPath() and
> toString() implemented to behave identically to a single-element NodeList,
> and make a custom JDOMFactory for it, then plug that factory into the
> SAXBuilder used by Anakia. I'll also tweak TreeWalker and XPathTool to
> return NodeList (it implements java.util.List as well, so it's backward
> compatible).
>
> This way, the new functionality becomes a feature of Element and everything
> is backward compatible. There is no need for two different Anakias! Be back
> soon after I'm done.
>
> Attila.
Kick ass!
-jon
