Hi,

Does anybody know what is the "best practice" way of initializing elements in a Set.

Scenario is that class contains a set which is to be used to display (just the first record) to the screen. However it is possible that this set may be empty and therefore when i go to access the first element using : setelements[0] the page does not display correctly.

Workaround i have used is that when parent object is initialised, i check to see if the set contains an element. If it doesn't i create one and insert it into the set.

Is there a more elegant way of doing this? Such as an attribute of the <set> element that tells us to create an object by default? Or has anyone got any better suggestions?

Thanks a lot.
John