[jdom-interest] Protected methods to make private

Laurent Bihanic laurent.bihanic at atosorigin.com
Thu Jun 26 07:53:14 PDT 2003


Jason Hunter wrote:
> Yep, that's the right history of why it's there.  Must we keep it?  It 
> seems like an odd duck method where subclasses could have real problems 
> if we change our SAXHandler implementation design in the future.  Could 
> an XMLFilter or something suffice?  What kind of whitespace stripping do 
> people want to do that we don't currently provide?

AFAIK, JDOM does not provide any kind of whitespace stripping at building 
time. Stripping whitespaces in SAXHandler can be a good performance boost for 
highly indented documents.

Laurent




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