[jdom-interest] detach() [eg]

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 2:03 AM +0200 5/2/01, Noam Tamim wrote:
>As an alternative, how about a simple Element.moveTo(Element) and
>Element.moveTo(Document) ?
>

These wouldn't work because you need to specify where in the Element 
or Document you're moving the element to. Children have order. You 
could probably come up with some sort of index, but given the 
possibility of deep descendants, I suspect it's more trouble than 
it's worth.
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