[jdom-interest] More changes

Jason Hunter jhunter at collab.net
Wed Jul 19 09:34:04 PDT 2000


> * Anyone having a problem with removing getCharContent() (both default
> and non-default version) in Element.java? It doesn't really behave the
> same as the rest...

Nope, remove it.

> * What do people think about removing the convenience methods (like
> getIntContent()) on Element.java? Mark Diekhans pointed out that getting
> a default value from an attribute is quite different from getting one
> from an Element - typically, it means the Element is optional, or not
> there, but we also return the default if the /format/ is incorrect.  For
> example:

I'm fine with removing them.  

On a somewhat related note, I'm really starting to like the idea of
getChildContent(String childName) and getChildContent(String childName,
String fallback).  These methods would greatly simplify my coding when
reading config files.

-jh-





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