[jdom-interest] Modifying JDOM tree

[philip.nelson at omniresources.com]

> Assume i want to add the name  of mailaddress as follows
> 
> 	email.getChild("cc").getChild("name").addContent("my.name")
> 
> Since cc is optional this expression might fail. In that case 
> I would like
> JDOM to create element cc and name as a side effect.

JDOM will not do this for you.  Your code can easily test for these
conditions and do exactly what makes sense for your specific application.