[jdom-interest] Text class (Question)

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

> If the reason for implementing this class is to abstract from 
> the type of
> string (i.e. character based or unicode) that you are using, 
> do you manage
> it with this class? It seems to me that it's api still 
> depends on String and

It is happening primarily to allow developers to be able to make the textual
content appear as a node in a tree with for example a parent to aid in
traversal type operations.  

The discussion about Unicode was something Elliotte Rusty Harold brought up
some time ago and could affect the design.  The String/StringBuffer
implementation is especially important now that Sun has laid out a plan to
support multibyte unicode characters whereas before the assumption here was
that to support that, we would have to roll our own unicode implementation.