[jdom-interest] getText

[Brett McLaughlin]

OK. Executive decision. 

getText() no longer returns null, it returns the empty String, when
there is either no content or empty content, etc.

The only negative I heard was that comparison to null was less costly
than comparison to "" with .equals(). This is true; however, I think the
typical code ends up being this anyway:

String text = element.getText();
if ((text != null) && (!text.equals("")) {
  System.out.println("Element text is " + text);
}

in which case you use both. So you actually save this way.

So I'm putting it in CVS now.

-Brett

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