[jdom-interest] Element constructors?

[Jason Hunter]

You can just say:

Element e = new Element("mytag").setText("some content");

-jh-

William Krick wrote:

> Does JDOM have some sort of way to create a new element with content?
> 
> I'm envisioning something like...
> 
>   Element element = new Element("MYTAG", "some content text");
> 
> 
> I looked through the docs and I don't see anything like that.
> 
> 
> The alternative is to make helper methods that do the same thing for me...
> 
>   Element makeElement(String name, String value){
>     Element element = new Element(name);
>     element.setText(value);
>     return element;
>   }
> 
> of course, since there's not a Variant type in Java yet (as far as I know),
> there would need to be versions for the other basic types...
> 
> 
>   Element makeElement(String name, boolean value){
>     Element element = new Element(name);
>     element.setText(String.valueOf(value));
>     return element;
>   }
> 
>   Element makeElement(String name, int value){
>     Element element = new Element(name);
>     element.setText(String.valueOf(value));
>     return element;
>   }
> 
>   Element makeElement(String name, float value){
>     Element element = new Element(name);
>     element.setText(String.valueOf(value));
>     return element;
>   }
> 
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