[jdom-interest] [Vote] NoSuchChildException

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:24 PM -0700 7/12/00, Randall Parker wrote:
>Do you oppose the use of default values within the DTD itself?
>

Default values in the DTD are genuine defaults. That's how I was 
thinking the below method would be used. That's fine. It's only 
defaults used as error messages that are a problem.

>>>Excellent reasoning! So since we all know people are going to be enraged
>>>by this ;-), do you also feel we should not provide:
>>>
>>>public Element getChild(String name, Element defaultValue);
>>>
>>
>>I hadn't thought of that method that way. I was thinking that people
>>would provide the defaultValue as something they could use if there
>>was no child, not as a simple error flag. But if it's just an error
>>flag, then yes, I would say we shouldn't provide that method.


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