[jdom-interest] Default for getChildText?

[Jason Hunter]

Glad you like JDOM!

The reason those methods don't exist is that those convenience methods
aren't loved by all since they complicate the API, so while I pushed
through getChildText() and getChildTextTrim() as convenience methods, I
didn't want to push it.

-jh-

Dave Ferguson wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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