[jdom-interest] newbie detach() question

[Mike Jennings]

Hi Edward,

Thanks for the reply! I have this nagging feeling in the back of my
brain that there must be some subtle and clever way to maintain
well-formedness but also retaining ease-of-use by thinking about
things slightly differently. As to what that subtle-and-clever way is,
I don't know, but I feel it is there.

What about a function that just swaps parents? That would maintain
well-formedness. It might not cover all use cases that makes detach() handy
though.

-Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenworthy, Edward" <edward.kenworthy at exchange.co.uk>
To: "'Mike Jennings'" <mjenning at islandnet.com>; "jdom-interest"
<jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:51 PM
Subject: RE: [jdom-interest] newbie detach() question


> Hi Mike
>
> I use detach all the time as the tool I am writing (which is not an XML
> editor but uses XML) allows the user to drag and drop requirements from
one
> place to another. My requirements are implemented as elements. (Oh and my
> program logic doesn't allow the root to be detached because that's simply
> not an option presented to the user - they don't even know the root
exists).
>
> Edward
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Jennings [mailto:mjenning at islandnet.com]
> Sent: 26 April 2001 17:00
> To: jdom-interest
> Subject: [jdom-interest] newbie detach() question
>
>
> Hi,
> I've been following the detach() debate for a while and I was just
> wondering if someone could let me know all of the different
> cases where one would want to detach an element from its parent.
> What kind of hassles would be created if there was no detach() method?
>
> -Mike Jennings
>
>
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