[jdom-interest] setText() to replace children?

[Bart Read]

I have to broadly agree with Alex Rosen on this one.  getText() should just
get the text, possibly throwing a RuntimeException if there is mixed
content.  If you want all of the content you should use getContent().  I
think the function that setText() should perform is more open to debate.  My
personal opinion is that it should replace all child content of the element
in question.  If you want to set mixed content then there are more
appropriate methods: setContent(List content) and the various forms of
addContent().  If you're dealing with mixed content I really can't see why
you'd want to use getText() in the first place.  Conversely if you have an
element that only contains text do you really want to get back a List and
then have to cast the first object to a String in order to get at it?


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