[jdom-interest] document order of elements

[Jason Hunter]

Well, the only way to know would be by walking the tree.  If you have a
reference to an Element you can walk by calling getParent() to walk up
and getChildren() to walk down.  I'd need convincing this should be
standard in the Element API.

-jh-

bob wrote:
> 
> How (im)possible would it be for there to be a set of methods
> for checking document order of elements.
> 
> Something like
> 
>          boolean Element.before(Element that)
>          boolean Element.after(Element that)
> 
> XPath muck sometimes cares about document order of Elements.
> >From the XPath implementation, we have lots of various Elements,
> but not in any particular single tree.  We might be holding
> a handful of subtrees from the original document.  And need to
> know their relative order.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
>         -bob
> 
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