[jdom-interest] Element.getText() bug

[Brett McLaughlin]

Jason Peck wrote:
> 
> I think I have found a bug in the 9/17/00 build of JDOM.
> 
> When calling the getText() method of an element that has no data (ie.
> <user></user> ), the Element.getText() method throws a NullPointer
> exception.  However, if for some funny reason, I output the xml to screen
> using XMLOutputter first, the exception is not thrown.  I saw in a previous
> post that a change was made to XMLOutputter.output to change <user></user>
> to <user/> if no data is found between.  Shouldn't getText() either return
> NULL or "" if no text is found??


I just fixed this yesterday - try the latest from CVS.

Thanks,
Brett

> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
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