It's clearly not a long term solution to go hun...

It's clearly not a long term solution to go hunting them one by one,
but for the short term goal of shipping 2.8.0 without accidental java 6
dependencies, removed what should be all uses of String.isEmpty from the
source. No review.

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/xml/ProcInstr.scala b/src/library/scala/xml/ProcInstr.scala
index b906e09877..72b9ba00f2 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/xml/ProcInstr.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/xml/ProcInstr.scala
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ case class ProcInstr(target: String, proctext: String) extends SpecialNode
    *  to this stringbuffer.
    */
   override def buildString(sb: StringBuilder) =
-    sb append "<?%s%s?>".format(target, (if (proctext.isEmpty) "" else " " + proctext))
+    sb append "<?%s%s?>".format(target, (if (proctext == "") "" else " " + proctext))
 }
diff --git a/src/library/scala/xml/dtd/ElementValidator.scala b/src/library/scala/xml/dtd/ElementValidator.scala
index 9e2b43f68b..872fb58393 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/xml/dtd/ElementValidator.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/xml/dtd/ElementValidator.scala
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class ElementValidator() extends Function1[Node,Boolean] {
   def setMetaData(adecls: List[AttrDecl]) { this.adecls = adecls }
 
   def getIterable(nodes: Seq[Node], skipPCDATA: Boolean): Iterable[ElemName] = {
-    def isAllWhitespace(a: Atom[_]) = cond(a.data) { case s: String if s.trim.isEmpty  => true }
+    def isAllWhitespace(a: Atom[_]) = cond(a.data) { case s: String if s.trim == "" => true }
 
     nodes.filter {
       case y: SpecialNode => y match {