[jdom-interest] Element Reference from Attribute

[Louis Tribble]

Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> > 1. Everything needs to know its parent. I don't really care if that
> > adds 4 bytes to each object.
>> 
> > 2. Using Strings instead of a Text class is extremely inconvenient.
> 
> With a design so that getMixedContent() returned a list including node
> of type Text but getText(), or some such method, still returned a
> String?  It's a hard requirement that you can get a String from an
> Element.

It seems like it might be possible to store the String (as now)
until a client specifically requests a Text node (calls 
getMixedContent or whatever). Could something be done along this line 
for attributes as well? Maybe we can have our cake and eat it too, with
respect to memory usage.

Louis
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