[jdom-interest] Recursively Modifying the JDOM before output.
philip.nelson at omniresources.com
philip.nelson at omniresources.com
Mon Jun 4 19:11:49 PDT 2001
> >Maybe it should have been bold. Anyway, seems like setText() adding
> >before or after child elts feels good to people. So which: before or
> >after? :-)
> >
>
> NO NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO! This is not a good idea. It does not
> feel good to me. The current behavior is by far the most intuitive.
> We should keep it. If it's really too surprising to people (I don't
> think it is) then we should delete this method. But JDOM should not
> be making implicit assumptions about how to intermingle text with
> child elements.
Though the setText result of destroying the content is unexpected, it's easy
to discover and correct. I think choosing a way to add text with setText is
worse. I think we should leave it as it is.
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