[jdom-interest] Element.getDocument() ?

Brett McLaughlin brett.mclaughlin at lutris.com
Thu Aug 31 08:11:08 PDT 2000


Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> bob wrote:
> >
> > Probably just recursively getParent() until isRootElement(),
> > and hold a reference to the Document there.  Maybe.
> 
> Sounds about right.  You could save space and some logic work by getting
> rid of the isRootElement boolean and just handling a parentDocument
> Element reference.  For example, you implement isRootElement() as:
> 
> return (parentDocument != null);

Actually, this doesn't work, as any Element created like so:

Element nonRoot = new Element("foo");

would think it is the root element.

-Brett

> 
> -jh-
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