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

Just wondering if one could not simply use inner (member) classes (LRM 5.3.7)? E.g. like this (based on the first answer above):

// original classes:
public class Tagged {
    // ...
}

public class XMLElement {
    // ...
}

public class TaggedXmlElement {
    public/protected/private (static?) class InnerTagged extends Tagged {
      // ...
    }

    public/protected/private (static?) class InnerXmlElement extends XMLElement  {
        // ...
    }

}

This way you have a class TaggedXmlElement which actually contains all elements from the two original classes and within TaggedXmlElement you have access to non-private members of the member classes. Of course one would not use "super", but call member class methods. Alternatively one could extend one of the classes and make the other a member class. There are some restrictions, but I think they can all be worked around.