[jdom-interest] a base class to JDOM element and comment?

[Winston Wolff]

I have just started integrating JDOM into one of my projects and I 
really admire it's ease of use.   I don't know when the Beta 9 is 
scheduled for public release, so I have one suggestion which I would 
like to mention and see if anybody things it would be a useful addition 
to the project.

I think it would be useful to have a common base class for the various 
JDOM entity objects like Element and Comment in particular.  Perhaps 
org.jdom.Entity?

My situation is this:  I have a tree of objects that I am storing as 
XML via JDOM.  Each object has a method: Element xmlEncode() with 
returns an Element object to represent itself in the XML file.  However 
I would like to also allow a comment to be returned in some cases.  For 
example, Entity xmlEncode() Where an entity could be either an element 
or a comment.  This will allow the java object to mark it's place in 
the XML file, but not actually put an element in.

What do people think?

-winston
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