[jdom-interest] A plea for the orphans

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:13 PM -0700 9/16/00, Jason Hunter wrote:

>A problem with this is that our String representation of text can't have
>a getParent() and that's a bit unfortunate but not (imho) unfortunate
>enough to switch to having a Text class.
>

How about if I tossed in that it would eliminate the need for a CDATA 
class since a Text class could easily have an isCDATA property with 
appropriate getter and setter methods? Then we'd be adding one class 
and removing one. Is that fortunate enough to switch you?

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