[jdom-interest] Entity IDs

[Brett McLaughlin]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at the Entity class and it occurs to me that it shoudl have
> methods to get the public and system IDs, much as the DocType class
> does. I'm also thinking that these should possibly be set in the
> constructor rather than in setter methods, but I'm not sure.

I tend to think you're right, at least on having the IDs. I am unsure
about the constructor thing... anyone else have an opinion? I can see
creating an entity, maybe with one or the other - makes having it
overloaded in the constructor sort of tricky...

> 
> I'm also wondering if it makes sense to provide SAXEntityBuilder and
> DOMEntityBuilder classes that build Entity objects instead of Document
> objects, though this may be across the 20% divide of the 80/20 split.
> Thoughts?

Feels like a good idea and abstraction, but I'm not sure if its worth it
- if you have the bandwidth, I'd say go for it - it allows an easy
extension for people wanting to provide non-standard behavior in those
areas.

-Brett

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