writeable attributes of formcontrols / httpelements?

Dear httpunit community members,

Patch [ 1393367 ] Patch for writable form.name 
javascript attribute

The patch at:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1393367&group_id=6550&atid=306550


suggest to make the attribute "name" writable like this:
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>     private       String  _nameAttribute;
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>         _nameAttribute  = "";
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>         _nameAttribute  = NodeUtils.getNodeAttribute( node, "name" );
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>     
>     public String getName() {
>         return _nameAttribute;
>     }
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<             } else if (propertyName.equalsIgnoreCase( "disabled" )) {
---
>             }
>             else if (propertyName.equalsIgnoreCase( "name" )) {
>                 _nameAttribute = value.toString();
>             }
>             else if (propertyName.equalsIgnoreCase( "disabled" )) {


In principle each attribute could be made "writeable" if 
this would be implemented in HTMLElementBase.java by 
introducing a "cache" for:

    /**
     * get the Attribute with the given name - by delegating to
     * NodeUtils
     * @param name - the name of the attribute to get
     * @return the attribute
     */
    public String getAttribute( final String name ) {
        return NodeUtils.getNodeAttribute( getNode(), name );
    }


So first we'd lookup the attribute in the cache and only 
if it is not in there we'll go to the Nodes themselves.

What else would be necessary here? 

Wolfgang

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