UtilXml.childElementList returning null

[Adam Heath-2]

What's the point of UtilXml.childElementList returning null, if the
element to look thru is null?  This causes code that calls that function
to have to check for a null return; wouldn't it just be better to return
an empty list, and then not have to have the rest of the code base
cluttered with all these null checks?

[Tim Ruppert]

+1

Cheers,

Tim

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On Sep 22, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Adam Heath wrote:

What's the point of UtilXml.childElementList returning null, if the

element to look thru is null?  This causes code that calls that function

to have to check for a null return; wouldn't it just be better to return

an empty list, and then not have to have the rest of the code base

cluttered with all these null checks?