[jdom-interest] How to "crash" JDOM, part 1

[Jason Hunter]

trebor.a.rude at lmco.com wrote:
> 
>         I agree it would make sense to have a way to turn it off, but where
> do you put the option, 

That's the million dollar question.

> since any Element (and the PartialList) might need to
> access it? The Document might make sense, but Elements don't have a pointer
> to the Document they're in 

And elements need behavior even when they aren't attached to a
document.  Like during element construction.

> I'll try to have the patch available this weekend,
> with or without the option to shut it off.  That can always be added later.

Exactly.

-jh-