[jdom-interest] detach() [eg]

[Scott Means]

It seems to me that one of Jason's major objections is the need to catch a
random new exception anytime he wants to use the .detach() method, e.g.:

> >} catch (IllegalXXXException e) {

The true meaning of this exception is: "You've tried to violate XML
well-formedness." So maybe it would be a good time to think about a
general-purpose WellFormednessException that could be thrown for anything
that would break the document. Unfortunately, it looks like there are
already a number of Illegal???Exceptions that would fall under this
umbrella, so I guess it's too late. But it seems like it would be
convenient (and not too icky for the programmer) to just catch a single
WellFormednessException for any of these violations and sort through the
exception message. And on that tack, when it comes time to worry about
in-memory validity, you could have a ValidityException to go with it.


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Scott Means (smeans at moonlightideas.com)