[jdom-interest] Text class (Modified)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 4:42 PM -0500 5/27/01, Brett McLaughlin wrote:
>OK. So now we're at:
>
>public class Text {
>

implements Cloneable, Serializable

>     public Object clone() {
>         Text newText = new Text(value);
>         newText.setParent(parent);
>     }
>

I don't think the clone() method should set the parent because the 
clone is not a child of the parent (it's not in the parent's child 
list), unlike the original object. Clones generally appear detached.

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