[jdom-interest] Element.getChildren() doesn't work ??

[Brett McLaughlin]

Omen Red wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
>  recently I have downloaded jdom-b3 and tryied to use
> in my work, but what I found is that
> when I call function getChildren() in Element it
> returns me list with doubled count of subelements.
> For instance when I build document from
> "<A1><A2></A2><A2></A2></A1>" and call then
> getChildren() for root element, I receive not 2 A2
> elements but four!! Is it ok ?
> I went to the sources of jdom and found getChildren
> function, and found following:

Get the latest version from CVS. Beta 3 and 4 are horribly behind.

Thanks,
Brett

> 
> >>    public List getChildren() {
> >>        PartialList elements = new
> PartialList(content);
> >>
> >>        Iterator i = content.iterator();
> >>        while (i.hasNext()) {
> >>            Object obj = i.next();
> >>            if (obj instanceof Element) {
> >>                elements.addPartial(obj);
> >>            }
> >>        }
> >>        return elements;
> >>    }
> 
> As I understand from code above, first of all List of
> subelements is created from "content" and then all
> elements of "content" are added again.
> I don't get it. Of course I can use getMixedContent()
> but what is the purpose of getChildren() function then
> ?
> 
> Thanx, best regards,
> omen.
> 
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