[jdom-interest] Toward beta 9

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 11:52 AM -0400 4/9/03, <Vadim.Strizhevsky at morganstanley.com> wrote:
>Personally I would preffer your solution with optional Verifier. I also
>don't believe that libraries should protect people from themselves at the
>expense of efficiency. But I could live with compromise also.
>

It's not a question of protecting programmers from theirselves. It's 
a question of whether JDOM is correct or incorrect. If JDOM is an XML 
object model, it has to model XML, not some superset thereof. That 
means verifying XML's constraints.  By virtue of choosing to use an 
XML API rather than writing text directly onto an OutptuStream, 
programmers are moving the work onto the API's shoulders. The API 
should absorb as much of the burden as possible so the programmer's 
don't have to.
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