>Seems like fields have been completely forgotten, however. Shouldn't
>there be some mechanism for something so basic in Java?
Standard Java OO programming practice is that nobody should be accessing
fields, since there's no way to subclass/override a field -- everything
should be going through accessor methods. But this is getting outside the
issue of Xalan's extension mechanism...
I still think the right answer is that if you don't like the API on a Java
library class used as an extension, you should write and invoke a class
which has an API you do like.
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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
"The world changed profoundly and unpredictably the day Tim Berners Lee
got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk
