[jdom-interest] NoSuchElementException in jdom-b5 ?

[Marek]

When I execute this code with nodeName equal to FORM_CODE and nodeValue
equal to newhire.
 
 public void setNodeValue (String nodeName, String nodeValue) {
      Element element = this.document.getRootElement ().getChild
(nodeName);
      if (element != null) {
         element.setText (nodeValue);
      }
}
 
I get this exception: (I am using jdom-b5)
 
org.jdom.NoSuchElementException: The element FORM_CODE does not exist
within the specified element.
         at org.jdom.Element.getChild(Element.java:558)
         at JdomHelper.setNodeValue(JdomHelper.java:83)
         at FormProcessor.doPost(FormProcessor.java:111)
         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
         at

org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:503)
         at

org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:597)
         at

org.apache.tomcat.servlets.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:257)
         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
         at

org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:503)
         at
 org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559)
         at

org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:156)
         at

org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338)
         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
 
I know that this happens when the setNodeValue function is called with a
node name that does not exist in the document (namely FORM_CODE). What I
don't understand is why its throwing this exception. I thought
getChild() should return a null value if it can't find the node and the
if statement should catch that. Is NoSuchElementException even in
jdom-b5 ? I just upgraded from jdom-b3 to jdom-b5. Before when I was
using jdom-b3 I had a try catch where I would catch the
NoSuchElementException and ignore it (ya I know that its bad form
but...). Any help would be appreciated.
 
Marek
mdolgos at north-pacific.com