[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes

[Bradley S. Huffman]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> >Would a method like Element.getText(Map) be useful for concatinating Text,
> >CDATA, and EntityRef into a String?
> >
> At first hearing, it sounds too complicated and not really extensible 
> in the long term.

I not suggesting anything complicated just a convenience to make
Element.getText a little more useful by giving developers a easy way to map
EntityRef names to the String they want inserted in the result String. The
default would be to wrap EntityRef name in &; like XMLOutputter. But if they 
provide a Map that maps String->Object then Object.toString is used.
Maintaining the Map and it's contents would be their responsiblity.

Speaking of EntityRef, should Element.setText parse the String for entities?

Brad