[jdom-interest] can you consider this for commitment?

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

>I think there is a real need to support arbitary text strings.
>
>I understand that I could parse my perfectly valid XSL string and break it
>out to "spoon feed" it to JDom.  This just feels wrong to me.  For example,
>if I had a valid XML document, would you require a programmer to parse it
>themselves and build a jdom manually for the document?  This is the same
>situation.
>

Yes.

>Many websites have their content in a database.  To build a JDom object
>using this content would necessitate parsing the content and manually
>building up the dom, when their content already is valid xml.
>

Yes. This is the proper behavior. XML is XML and should be treated as XML.

>This is NOT a simple case of string cancatenation.  My document is built
>from many different sources.  It is built from calculated values, database
>data and XSL.  I am "properly" using JDom for the majority of my document.
>However, the content of the generated page is stored in a database.  It is a
>valid XSL text.  I think allowing arbitary text strings would be of
>tremendouse benefit.
>

I disagree.

>In regard to the previous points:
>I don't understand why it is a compliment that JDom does not allow this
>usage.  I thought the premise of JDom was to make it easier for the
>programmer?
>

This would make it more difficult for the programmer by allowing 
malformed documents as well as by complicating the currently very 
simple model.

>In regard to SaxOutputter and DomOutputter, I will fix these classes so that
>they properly output the unescaped text.  XMLOutputter is already done.
>

Probably a waste of time. I can't foresee these getting added to the 
official distribution.
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