[jdom-interest] Toward beta 9

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 10:55 PM -0700 4/9/03, Philip Nelson wrote:
>Has anybody tried this approach?
>
>create a package protected or inner subclass of DefaultJDOMFactory in
>SAXBuilder.  Then in the factory, for example...
>
>     private class NoCheckText extends Text
>     {
>        public void noCheck(String text) {
>           value = text;
>        }
>     }
>     public Text text(String text) {
>         NoCheckText t = new NoCheckText();
>         t.noCheck(text);
>         return (Text) t;
>     }


That looks like it might actually work without causing too many 
problems or further complicating the API, though it does depend on 
those protected, do-nothing, no-args constructors that I wish we 
didn't have.
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