How can interfaces replace the need for multiple inheritance when have existing classes

Question

First of all... Sorry for this post. I know that there are many many posts on stackoverflow which are discussing multiple inheritance. But I already know that Java does not

Answer 1

I'd solve it that way: extract interfaces for the Tagged and XMLElement class (maybe you don't need all methods in the public interface). Then, implement both interfaces and the implementing class has a Tagged (your actual concrete Tagged class) and an XMLElement (your actual concrete XMLElement class):

 public class MyClass implements Tagged, XMLElement {

    private Tagged tagged;
    private XMLElement xmlElement;

    public MyClass(/*...*/) {
      tagged = new TaggedImpl();
      xmlElement = new XMLElementImpl();
    }

    @Override
    public void someTaggedMethod() {
      tagged.someTaggedMethod();
    }
  }

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  public class TaggedImpl implements Tagged {
    @Override
    public void someTaggedMethod() {
      // so what has to be done
    }
  }

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  public interface Tagged {
     public void someTaggedMethod();
  }

(and the same for XMLElement)