[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 7:43 PM -0600 2/16/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


>Just looked at ContentList and it should be fairly easy to do, come
>to think of it the merge should probably be taken out of Element and
>moved to ContentList so Text, CDATA adds are consistent.
>

OK, but if the code's going to go in ContentList then somebody else 
is going to need to write it because I don't have a clue what's going 
on in there and would feel very uncomfortable messing with its 
internals.

Wherever the change is made, the tricky bit is going to be deciding 
whether to merge adjacent Text and CDATA nodes. If we do merge them, 
do we merge them into a Text node or a CDATA node? Probably the 
latter. If someone's deliberately added a CDATA node, then they're 
probably more concerned about having it preserved than the text node.
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