[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder setFeature() and setProperty() exceptions

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:32 PM -0700 4/16/02, Jason Hunter wrote:

>I'd like to hear what other people think.  I believe it provides a tiny
>bit of niceness to the API but at the expense of breaking lots of
>existing code (throwing exceptions where there used to be none).  While
>I know we're free to do that, I don't like breaking people's code unless
>we can show them a significant improvement in the API.  I'm not sure
>this is that significant.  I'd like to hear what others think.
>

I'm not sure how many people are really using these methods. The only 
thing I've used them for myself is to turn on schema validation; but 
if breakage is a big concern maybe a runtime exception might be more 
appropriate here? Perhaps an IllegalArgumenntException or some 
subclass of it?
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