[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter

[Alex Chaffee]

No it's not a red herring.  I'm not talking about using the defaults:
I'm talking about specifying options.  Sure, if you use the defaults,
this whole issue is moot.  If you have some settings to set, keeping
the settings in the object makes the API simpler.

Another thought-provoking question: if the options are in a separate
object, won't that mean that XMLOutputter's *only* instance variable
is the pointer to options?  Seems like a clue that it's a useless
level of indirection.

 - A

On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:46:24PM -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 7:05 AM -0700 8/4/00, Alex Chaffee wrote:
> >My other, more pragmatic motivation for keeping the options inside the
> >object is it simplifies the API.
> >
> >	XMLOutputter o = new XMLOutputter(true, "  ");
> >
> >	vs.
> >
> >	XMLOutputter o = new XMLOutputter( new XMLOutputFormat ( true, "  ") );
> >
> >
> 
> This is a red herring. In either case we can very easily provide:
> 
> XMLOutputter o = new XMLOutputter();
> 
> which would simply set up the defaults, whether those defaults are 
> implemented in this class or a different class.
> 
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