[jdom-interest] getBooleanValue() in Attribute
    Elliotte Rusty Harold 
    elharo at metalab.unc.edu
       
    Sun May  4 12:01:09 PDT 2003
    
    
  
Once more into the queue:
Currently, getBooleanValue recognizes "true", "on", and "yes" as true 
and "false", "off", and "no" as false.
I suspect we should follow the W3C XML Schema definitionn of boolean; 
i.e. "true" and "1" are true; "false" and "0" are false. All other 
values throw an exception.
A weaker version would keep "on/off" and "yes/no" but add 0 and 1.
Finally, whatever decision is reached here, the JavaDoc needs to be 
adjusted to document what is going on. Currently you have to read the 
source code for this method to find out.
-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold
elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
    
    
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