[jdom-interest] no getChildTextNormalize() ?

[Laurent Bihanic]

Alex Rosen wrote:

> I'm always conflicted about convenience methods. They're so nice when you
> use them, but if you don't use them, they just clutter up the interface.
> I've always been thinking that all the getChildText() and the trimming and
> normalizing methods belong in helper classes, since they're only appropriate
> for one style of XML documents. Like:
> 
>   String val = JDOMHelper.getChildTextNormalize(element, "childname");
>

 
+1 for a utility class as there are many such methods that would be useful: Allocation of a SAX parser, normalizeText() for any text (e.g. for comments), etc.