[jdom-interest] Default for getChildText?

[Dave Ferguson]

I've recently started using JDOM and I love it.  Here is a question and possible enhancement request.

I noticed that beta 8 adds a new method to Element to get an attribute value while passing in a default -- getAttributeValue(String name, String def).  This is very helpful, but I was amazed to see that the same thing was not done for getChildText() and getChildTextTrim().  I would find it extremely useful to be able to pass a default to those methods as well.

Any reason those methods weren't added?

Thanks,
Dave F.