[jdom-interest] Inconsistencies

Jason Hunter jhunter at acm.org
Wed Aug 1 12:01:10 PDT 2001


bob mcwhirter wrote:
> 
> Working on the JDOM DocumentNavigator for Jaxen, and am noticing
> inconsistencies in the API:
> 
> To obtain the text of a Text node, we use getValue(), where to obtain
> the text of CDATA node, we have getText().

Note that currently Text is not used, it's just a "whiteboard" class. 
So there's no inconsistency yet.  Should perhaps getValue() be replaced
with getText(), thus pushing existing naming conventions onto the new
class?  I'm easy.

-jh-



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