[jdom-interest] Setting value of anattribute resets its type

[Victor Toni]

After checking the implementation I discovered that the type of an 
attribute will be resetted while setting its value (from the Element 
class) because a new Attribute object will be created on each modification.

    public Element setAttribute(String name, String value) {
        return setAttribute(new Attribute(name, value));
    }

    public Element setAttribute(String name, String value, Namespace ns) {
        return setAttribute(new Attribute(name, value, ns));
    }


What about:

    public Element setAttribute(final String name, final String value) {
        final Attribute attribute = getAttribute(name);
        if (null == attribute) {
            return setAttribute(new Attribute(name, value));           
        } else {
            attribute.setValue(value);
            return this;
        }
    }

    public Element setAttribute(final String name, final String value, 
final Namespace ns) {
        final Attribute attribute = getAttribute(name, ns);
        if (null == attribute) {
            return setAttribute(new Attribute(name, value, ns));
        } else {
            attribute.setValue(value);
            return this;
        }
    }



Regards,
Victor