[jdom-interest] Text class (Modified)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:42 PM -0500 5/27/01, Brett McLaughlin wrote:
>OK. So now we're at:
>
>public class Text {

>     public Text(String stringValue) {
>         value = new StringBuffer(stringValue);
>     }

What should we do if stringValue is null? I suggest throwing an 
immediate NullPointerException.

What should we do if stringValue is empty? Does it make sense to 
allow an empty text node?


>     public void setValue(String stringValue) {
>         value = new StringBuffer(stringValue);
>     }
>

Ditto.

>     public void append(String stringValue) {
>         value.append(stringValue);
>     }
>

Ditto.


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