[jdom-interest] Newbie question.

[Ian Lea]

Element el = tt.getChild("MsData");
el.detach();
Document doct = new Document(el);


Could also consider clone() but detach() seems more appropriate here.


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Ian.
ian.lea at blackwell.co.uk


nostromo at arcor.de wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I wanted to make a new document from a part of a bigger document.
> I retrieve a Element from the bigger document:
> Element el = tt.getChild("MsData");
> And want to made it the root of a new document.
> Document doct = new Document(el);
> At runtime i got the following error.
> org.jdom.IllegalAddException: The element "MsData" could not be added as the root of the document: The element already has an existing parent "db"
> 
> Any hints or solutions?
> 
> I am new to jdom, xml and java.
> 
> Erik
> 
> jdom verion
> jdom-7b