[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 3:36 PM -0600 2/17/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:


>Let me restate that, should there be a additional method that does parse
>entities?  Would something like
>
>         element.setTextParsed("Cats &something; Dogs");
>
>as a convenience for
>
>         element.addContent(new Text("Cats "));
>         element.addContent(new EntityRef("something"));
>         element.addContent(new Text(" Dogs"));
>
>be useful or would it be unnecessary clutter in the API? Probably clutter.
>

It is unnecessary clutter. Worse yet, it presents an incorrect 
picture of the structure and semantics of an XML document. Text nodes 
are strings (in JDOM). Entity references are entity references. We 
shouldn't mix them up.
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