[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes

Sat Feb 16 22:30:50 PST 2002

At 11:30 PM -0600 2/16/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


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

Absolutely not. "Cats &amp; Dogs" is legal content for a text node. 
It consists of 15 characters including the ampersand followed by the 
three letters a, m, p. and the semicolon.
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