[GROOVY-2812] Please make toString on GPath XML nodes return value of text() and/or add getText() getter to node

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.5
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marc Palmer
• Created: 07/May/08 15:00
• Updated: 31/Mar/11 12:20

Description

Guys, am I missing something - it's very painful when using XmlParser and trying to get the value text of nodes, having to call text() all the time and remember it is a method.

At the very least node.text (calling getText()) should work.

Even better, have toString() on the node return the text instead of something that looks like the output of dump()