[jdom-interest] BUG in Document

Jason Hunter jhunter at collab.net
Mon Feb 12 09:40:12 PST 2001


Frank Morton wrote:
> 
> > > But, you can't do that.
> >
> > Why not?
> >
> > -jh-
> 
> You can. I was just flaking out. 

Whew.

> But the bug I originally reported is still there.

I don't see it as a bug.  If you subclass Document your subclass is
responsible for managing some of Document's internals.  We
*intentionally* don't do any work in the protected constructor because
some subclasses may not want to waste time constructing a list that may
not be used.  In other words, only a subclass that knows what it's doing
should call new Document().

-jh-



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