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

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:32:16PM -0400, Steven D. Keens wrote:
> But you shouldn't have invalid data.  The parser and your DTD or schema
> should catch that for you.
> 

I don't use DTDs, they just slow things down.

And anyway, even if you do use DTDs, an unchecked exception is not the
right solution.  If the semantics of getText are "will fail if called
on an element with non-text-only children," then that should be
advertised by a checked exception.  But I don't want it to work that
way either, since that would be way too cumbersome.  It should just
return a sensible value either way.


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