[From nobody Fri Aug  6 17:05:26 2004
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 20:13:46 -0800
From: Jason Hunter <jhunter@collab.net>
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To: Mike Jennings <mjenning@islandnet.com>
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Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] Suggestion
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> Mike Jennings wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What about adding a method to org.jdom.Element
> 
> public String getAttributeValue(String name, Namespace ns, String default)

There'd actually be two methods to add:

public String getAttributeValue(String name, String default)
public String getAttributeValue(String name, Namespace ns, String
default)

> Such that if the attribute named "name" does not exist, the String
> "default" is returned.
> This could be useful in cases where an XML file has default values for
> attributes
> that are not specified.
> 
> What do the powers that be think of this idea?

Seems to fit in nicely.  What do others think?

-jh-
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