[jdom-interest] Attribute.getBooleanValue()

[Zoltan Grose]

Hi. JDOM newbie here. :) 

I'm using JDOM in a servlet project and I was about to change all my True/False type attributes in the XML to be 0 / 1 when I decided to peek at the JDOM source to see just what kind of values were considered boolean. To my surprise, 0 and 1 wasn't on the list. Was this an intention omission? It seems to be a fairly common representation. I did a quick search through the archives and didn't see anything on the topic.

Loving JDOM so far!

-zoltan

For convenience I've copied the source (beta6) below:

    public boolean getBooleanValue() throws DataConversionException {
        if ((value.equalsIgnoreCase("true")) ||
            (value.equalsIgnoreCase("on")) ||
            (value.equalsIgnoreCase("yes"))) {
            return true;
        } else if ((value.equalsIgnoreCase("false")) ||
                   (value.equalsIgnoreCase("off")) ||
                   (value.equalsIgnoreCase("no"))) {
            return false;
        } else {
            throw new DataConversionException(name, "boolean");
        }
    }


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