Element Class Implementation

• The content is stored as a java.util.List which contains

  • One String (soon to be Text) object per text node

  • One Element object per child element

  • One Comment object per comment

  • One CDATA object per CDATA section (Text?)

  • One ProcessingInstruction object per processing instruction

• Use the regular methods of java.util.List to add, remove, and inspect the contents of an element

• Since the methods of java.util.List expect to work with Object objects, casting back to JDOM types and String is frequent

• Various utility methods mean you don't always have to work with the full list.

• Attributes and namespaces are available as separate lists since these are not children.