[jdom-interest] Re: [jdom-commits] Suggestion for adding breadthFirstEnumeration and deapthFirstEnumeration in the Element class

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:12 PM -0700 8/9/00, Chandra Patni wrote:
>Hello,
>I have been using JDOM for a week or so and it seems to be pretty 
>interesting. I have few suggestions regarding some of the added 
>functionality.
>1. It will be really useful to have breadthFirstEnumeration, 
>deapthFirstEnumeration and other traversals of a given element. I 
>suggest the inclusion of these two methods in the Element class.
>
>Iterator breadthFirstIterator();
>Iterator depthFirstIterator();
>Iterator inOrderIterator();
>Iterator postOrderIterator();
>Iterator preOrderIterator();
>
>I will be willing to contribute to this effort if desired.
>

These could be useful but I see no reason to clutter the Element API 
with them. How about experimenting with them in a separate class 
somewhere off in the contrib package?

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