[jdom-interest] Element.getDocument() ?

[Joerg]

Ah, now I got the point. Jason already proposed there to replace isRootElement by
parentDocument, to set this only for the root Element and take it therefore as a flag
to mark the root Element. This was a little bit too fast for me.

I did not read it carefully enough :-) and I understood at this point to take
(parentElement == null) as an indicator for the root Element (maybe Brett had the
same misunderstanding).

Joerg


Trebor A. Rude wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> >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
>
>         Why would it think it's the root? If the Element is created that way its
> parent document should be set to null (what else could it be set to?), so
> != null would return false.
>
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