How do people feel about the addition of a method to the
Configuration interface as per the following:
/**
* Return an array of child components matching the supplied
* child name and attribute key. Returned child components shall be
* selected based on the child name and attribute key value. The
* child elements shall be unique with respect to the attribute
* value of the supplied key. This method allows the selection of
* the set of children exposing unique values for the declared
* attribute.
*
* @param name the name of the child nodes
* @param key an attribute name that must exist on a child.
*/
public Configuration[] getChildren( String name, String key );
Potential usage would as follows:
Configuration[] children = m_config.getChildren("block","class");
The above operation would return only those children with the name
"block" and unique values for the attribute named "class". Where
multiple children exist with the same attribute key value, only the
first occurrence would be supplied.
Cheers, Steve.
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