From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-07-27T22:01:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [REXML] why not Element#[] ?

il 26 Jul 2004 09:06:38 -0700, ser@germane-software.com (Sean Russell)
ha scritto::

>gabriele renzi <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> wrote in message news:<8st2g0pmbeoeco74njv49uge4cr4rf52n8@4ax.com>...
>> I was just wondering why access to attributes of an element is done
>> just via #attributes#[].
>
>Element#[] is already defined, since it is inherited from Parent.  #[]
>references all child nodes of an element except attributes.

oops, sorry I just took a look at the quick RDoc api and did not
thought of inheritance

>> if this is not allowed there may be a reason: what is this reason?
>
>It was, primarily, a design decision: either Element#[] references
>nodal children, or Element#[] references attributes.  I chose the
>children.

well, sure now this makes sense, thanks a lot :)