[jdom-interest] getText with an empty element

[Brett McLaughlin]

Kem Morehead wrote:
> 
> I have a feeling this is a stupid question, but I need to be code-complete
> in a day so I'm really under the gun. I had jdom working fine, then I had to
> switch to the most recent source code and everything went to hell in a
> handbasket (so-to-speak).
> 
> Here's my question: I have an empty element, which aparently means that
> content (in Element.java) is null. When I try to do getText(), instead of
> returning null, I get a null pointer exception (because content is null).
> What am I supposed to do instead? Which method is it that I need?

Nope - I just fixed this yesterday (it was a bug) so try the latest from
CVS.

Thanks,
Brett

> 
> I'm really sorry if the answer is obvious.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> Kem Morehead, software engineer
> Idiom, Inc. [www.idiominc.com]
> 781.464.6113
> kmorehead at idiominc.com
> 
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