[jdom-interest] Merging text nodes
Bradley S. Huffman
hip at a.cs.okstate.edu
Sun Feb 17 13:36:15 PST 2002
Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
> At 11:30 PM -0600 2/16/02, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
> >Speaking of EntityRef, should Element.setText parse the String for entities?
> Absolutely not. "Cats & Dogs" is legal content for a text node.
> It consists of 15 characters including the ampersand followed by the
> three letters a, m, p. and the semicolon.
Let me restate that, should there be a additional method that does parse
entities? Would something like
element.setTextParsed("Cats &something; Dogs");
as a convenience for
element.addContent(new Text("Cats "));
element.addContent(new Text(" Dogs"));
be useful or would it be unnecessary clutter in the API? Probably clutter.
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