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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But you still have to have the setText() method so
that you can update the text</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>attribute of an existing element.. I'd rather not
see so many "convenience" methods</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>in the core API.. why not just write your own
utility class if you need it..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just my 2 cents</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Charlie</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mjenning@islandnet.com href="mailto:mjenning@islandnet.com">Mike
Jennings</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jdom-interest@jdom.org
href="mailto:jdom-interest@jdom.org">jdom-interest@jdom.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [jdom-interest] API
suggestion</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What about a factory method in org.jdom.Element
that creates an element and sets its</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>text all in one go.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>public static Element createElement(String
name,String text)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> {</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Element e=new Element(name);</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> e.setText(text);</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> return e;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> }</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then, one could replace code that looks like the
following:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Element e=new
Element("somename").setText("somevalue");</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Element
e=Element.createElement("somename","somevalue");</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically just as a convenience method for
programmers that need to create a lot of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>elements with text but no attributes.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Comments?</DIV>
<DIV>-Mike Jennings<BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>