> >At the very least provide an isEmpty() so that I don't have to do the
> >allocation in the common case there are no attributes.
>
> I didn't understand this. Why is an AttributeList interface inherently more
> efficient than AttributeMap? The use of an AttributeMap interface doesn't
> imply the creation of an object per start tag, any more than AttributeList
> does.
Because to iterate over the AttributeMap an Enumeration object has to
get allocated. AttributeList allows iteration over the attributes
without having to do any allocation.
James