[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes

[Jason Hunter]

"Bradley S. Huffman" wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> So we shouldn't allow the following sequence of code?
> 
>     Element e = new Element("title");
>     e.addContent( new Text("Cats "));
>     e.addContent( new EntityRef("connect"));
>     e.addContent( new Text(" Dogs"));
> 
> Which produces the same structure for the element's content as running
> 
>     <?xml version="1.0"?>
>     <!DOCTYPE greeting [
>        <!ENTITY connect "and">
>     ]>
>     <title>Cats &connect; Dogs</title>
> 
> thru SAXBuilder with setExpandEntities(false).