[jdom-interest] getText() and getAttributeValue()

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

>I daresay that any method of and kind should only return null if that
>represents a legitimate working state of the system the method's class
>is encapsulating -- never to represent an error, and never when String is
>the return type.

And those of us that think null is the appropriate response feel that
returning "" on a non exsistent attribute is masking knowledge of what the
xml actually contains.  You can make excellent application specific
arguments about this issue, but not at the level JDOM sits.