public ElementImpl(OMElement e,
    WrapperFactory fac) 
{
         
        this.fac = fac;
        this.e = e;
        node = e;
}

 public NamedNodeMap getAttributes() 
{
        if (nnm == null) { // ok now nnm == null implies this is the first time call to this method
            list = new ArrayList();
            nnm = new NamedNodeMapImpl(list, e, fac);
            Iterator itr = e.getAllAttributes();
            while (itr.hasNext()) {
                list.add(itr.next());
            }
            itr = e.getAllDeclaredNamespaces();
            while (itr.hasNext()) {
                list.add(itr.next());
            }
            Object parent = e.getParent();
            if (parent instanceof OMElement) {
                OMNamespace defaultNS = e.getDefaultNamespace();
                OMNamespace defaultParentNS = ((OMElement) parent).getDefaultNamespace();
                if (defaultNS != null && defaultParentNS != null &&
                        defaultNS.getNamespaceURI().equals(defaultParentNS.getNamespaceURI())) {
                    list.remove(defaultNS);
                }
            }
        }
        return nnm;
}

 public NodeList getChildNodes() 
{
        Iterator itr = null;
        if (nl == null) { // ok then this is the first call to this method
            nodes = new ArrayList();
            nl = new NodeListImpl(nodes, fac);
            itr = e.getChildren();
            while(itr.hasNext()) {
                nodes.add(itr.next());
            }
        }
        return nl;
}

 public Node getFirstChild() 
{
        return fac.getNode(e.getFirstOMChild());
}

 public String getNamespaceURI() 
{
        OMNamespace ns = e.getNamespace();
        if (ns != null){
            return ns.getNamespaceURI();
        }
        return null;
}

 public String getNodeName() 
{
        // overriden getNodeName()
        QName qn = e.getQName();
        if (qn.getPrefix() == null || "".equals(qn.getPrefix())) {
            return qn.getLocalPart();
        } else {
            return qn.getPrefix() + ":" + qn.getLocalPart();
        }
}

 public short getNodeType() 
{
        return Node.ELEMENT_NODE;
}

 public String getPrefix() 
{
        String prefix = e.getQName().getPrefix();
        if (prefix == null || "".equals(prefix)){
            return null;
        }
        return prefix;
}

 public String getTagName() 
{
        // for Element type getTagName() is similar to its getNodeName();
        return getNodeName();
}

 public boolean hasAttributes() 
{
        // no worries only the first time call would be expensive
        return getAttributes().getLength() != 0;
}

 public String toString() 
{
        return e.toString();
}