[jdom-interest] StringBufferAttribute

[Brett McLaughlin]

I'm not really sure why you would want to do this... What's wrong with the
basic Attribute class that you need to extend it?

-Brett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noam Tamim" <noamt at yahoo.com>
To: <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: [jdom-interest] StringBufferAttribute


> Hi there.
>
> What do you guys think about this idea: extending the Attribute class to
use
> (and expose!) a StringBuffer object for the value.
> I'm not suggesting to replace the existing Attribute, I just want comments
> on the idea:
>
> public class SBAttribute extends Attribute {
>  protected StringBuffer value;
>
>  public SBAttribute(String name, StringBuffer value, Namespace ns) {
>   super(); // avoid setting the original String value.
>   setName(name);
>   setValue(value);
>   setNamespace(ns);
>  }
>
>  public SBAttribute(String name, StringBuffer value) {
>   this(name,value,Namespace.NO_NAMESPACE);
>  }
>
>  // return the actual StringBuffer used by this attribute.
>  public StringBuffer getBuffer() {
>   return value;
>  }
>
>  public String getValue() {
>   return value.toString();
>  }
>
>  public Attribute setValue(String value) {
>   return setValue(new StringBuffer(value));
>  }
>
>  public SBAttribute setValue(StringBuffer value) {
>   // here should probably come some verifications.
>   this.value=value;
>   return this;
>  }
> }
>
>
>
> And here's an example of using it:
> void main() throws IOException {
>   Element root=new Element("root");
>   StringBuffer name=new StringBuffer("noam");
>   root.addContent(new Element("user").setAttribute(new
> SBAttribute("name",name)));
>   root.addContent(new Element("user").setAttribute(new
> SBAttribute("name",name)));
>   root.addContent(new Element("user").setAttribute(new
> SBAttribute("name",name)));
>   Document doc=new Document(root);
>
>   XMLOutputter xout=new XMLOutputter("  ",true);
>
>   System.out.println("name="+name);
>   xout.output(doc,System.out);
>
>   name.reverse();
>   System.out.println("name="+name);
>   xout.output(doc,System.out);
> }
>
>
>  - Noam.
>
>
>
>
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