[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes
philip.nelson at omniresources.com
philip.nelson at omniresources.com
Mon Feb 18 17:48:37 PST 2002
> 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.
I agree. I did make a case for mixing Text and EntityRef when trying to
figure out a way for attribute values to have entity refs in them. Since
we're not going to support that feature, I think we should avoid trying to
do to much in this direction.
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