The addition of the hasAttributes() method was decided by the W3C DOM WG last week on my request. I implemented it right away and didn't realize xalan depended on this interface and would break. Sorry about that. It is trivial to fix though. Note that the addition of this method was motivated by the fact that in some implementations, such as Xerces, smaller memory footprint can be achieved if instead of calling directly getAttributes(), you guard it with a test of hasAttributes(). The point is that on an element without any attributes you'll save the creation of a NamedNodeMap. I therefore recommend everybody to update their code along those lines. -- Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group
PS: xerces-dev is dead. You should use xerces-j-dev instead.
