[jdom-interest] new element methods?

[Phill_Perryman at Mitel.COM]

I would agree if it were not for the fact that JDOM already has several 
convienience methods already, so if JDOM is prepared to have convenience 
methods then why not these.


java.lang.String
getChildText(java.lang.String name) 
          This convenience method returns the textual content of the named 
child element, or returns an empty String ("") if the child has no textual content.
 java.lang.String
getChildText(java.lang.String name, Namespace ns) 
          This convenience method returns the textual content of the named 
child element, or returns null if there's no such child.
 java.lang.String
getChildTextNormalize(java.lang.String name) 
          This convenience method returns the normalized textual content 
of the named child element, or returns null if there's no such child.
 java.lang.String
getChildTextNormalize(java.lang.String name, Namespace ns) 
          This convenience method returns the normalized textual content 
of the named child element, or returns null if there's no such child.
 java.lang.String
getChildTextTrim(java.lang.String name) 
          This convenience method returns the trimmed textual content of 
the named child element, or returns null if there's no such child.
 java.lang.String
getChildTextTrim(java.lang.String name, Namespace ns) 
          This convenience method returns the trimmed textual content of 
the named child element, or returns null if there's no such child.


/Phill
IS Dept, Software Engineer.
phill_perryman at mitel.com
http://www.mitel.com
Tel: +44 1291 436023




Bryan Thale <bryan.thale at motorola.com>
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>
>
>Essentially, his getXXX methods also take a default value that it returns 
in
>the case where it fails...
> 
>

An improvement, but I'd still maintain that such app dependent 
considerations are best kept out of JDOM proper.

Bryan.

-- 
Bryan Thale
Networks & Infrastructure Research, Motorola Labs
mailto:bryan.thale at motorola.com


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