[jdom-interest] Content as a Text Node (was JDOM JSR)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:27 PM -0500 5/18/01, Brett McLaughlin wrote:
>Proposed text node:
>
>public class Text {
>
>     public Element getParent();
>
>     public String getValue();
>
>     public void setValue(String value);
>
>     // These are being discussed
>     public boolean isCDATA();
>
>     public void setCDATA(boolean isCDATA);
>
>}
>
>

We also need clone(), toString(), hashCode() and equals().

I also think we need some sort of method to merge adjacent text nodes 
so we produce an XPath compatible tree, but perhaps that method 
belongs in the parent Element rather than in the Text class. Or 
perhaps we could try to keep all text nodes merged all the time, in 
which case we need some sort of insertAfter() and insertBefore() 
methods here, but then CDATA gets real tricky. I need to think about 
it some more.
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