From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-24T06:06:58+09:00
Subject: [REXML] why not Element#[] ?

Hi gurus and nubys,

I was just wondering why access to attributes of an element is done
just via #attributes#[].
IMO it would be nice to have Element#[] like:

def [](k)
 attributes[k]
end

and ditto for #[]=

Anyway, Sean Russel is my personal XML deity so if this is not allowed
there may be a reason: what is this reason?