[jdom-interest] getText

[Christophe D. Laprun]

Jason Hunter wrote:

> Well, not quite.  We had defined getText() to return null and never
> return "".  So the second test should never have been necessary.
> 
> Still, I remain +1 on returning "".

Same here. It just seems more intuitive from the API point of view to
return "". At least, that's my gut feeling. The first time I used
getText, I didn't read the doc entirely and wrote my code assuming that
it would return "" if no text was present.
Just my two cents.

Chris

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