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

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:47 AM -0500 5/21/01, philip.nelson at omniresources.com wrote:


><off top of my head>
>Should we consider using a different member variable type other than String?
>I guess I am wondering about StringBuffer so that in SAXHandler.characters()
>you could append rather than adding new text nodes if you were still in the
>same contiguous block of characters.  I can't say how often this happens,
>don't know if it's a good idea, but thought I'd throw it out there.  There
>must be some reason that the large documents are taking proportionally so
>much longer to build than the short ones.
></off top of my head>

I'd actually argue we shouldn't depend on char at all because it's 
not Unicode or XML compatible. But this is an implementation issue 
that should be completely hidden by the interface. I'd be happy with 
a quick and dirty version that used String which we could go back and 
optimize later. Let's just make sure the interface doesn't lock us 
into any one implementation.
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