[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter & null pointer exception.
Wesley Biggs
wbiggs at elite.com
Wed Aug 16 10:02:40 PDT 2000
<JH>
Now let's decide what we want long term. What should getText() and
getMixedContent() return for all these?
</JH>
<empty/>
------------> ""
<empty></empty>
------------> ""
setText("")
------------> ""
setText(null)
Should be an error, or if we enable schema support, should generate
xsl:null="true" attribute.
XML specs state that <empty/> is semantically equivalent to <empty></empty>,
which means both represent the empty string. There is no way, short of
metasemantics like xsl:null, to represent a null case in XML.
Wes
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