[jdom-interest] no getChildTextNormalize() ?

[Kent Johnson]

+1 also.  In fact, I could start on this JDOMHelper class this weekend,
and add all the text handling methods, if y'all agree it's a good idea.

-Kent

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Laurent Bihanic wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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