However concerning interface design I think if you give the following input to SPWT:
<source:props> <my:author xmlns:my="my">Me, Myself and I</my:author> </source:props>
One would expect that
WebdavSource.getSourceProperty("my", "author").getValue();
returns:
Me, Myself and I
Yes, I see your point. It would be easy to get the value as a string, but what happens if value is an XML fragment? I'm wondering if it's safe to assume that if you call getPropertyValueAsString you know what you're doing so that you know that there will be no nested XML. I'm also thinking about dealing separately with the two cases, so that when value is just element + text node return just the text node, and return the (String) XML representation otherwise so that
<my:author xmlns:my="my">Me, Myself and I</my:author>
returns
Me, Myself and I
and
<my:author xmlns:my="my">
<my:firstname>Me</my:firstname>
<my:lastname>Myself and I</my:lastname>
</my:author>returns the untouched XML. Is that overcomplicated?
Ciao,
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