[jdom-interest] Moving elements closer to the root
Amy Lewis
amyzing at talsever.com
Mon May 7 20:16:32 PDT 2001
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:37:30AM +0100, Thomas Nichols wrote:
>Good Day,
>Previous discussions on detach() et al haven't yet guided me to a solution
>to this one - all help welcome.
>I want to convert
><a>
> <b>
> <c>
> Some mixed content.
> </c>
> </b>
></a>
>
>to
><a>
> <c>
> Some mixed content.
> </c>
></a>
>
>i.e. I want to make the _child_ part of the content of the _grandparent_,
>making the parent redundant.
>
>If Element grandParent is <a>, parent is <b> and child is <c>, I'm trying
>the following:
>
>grandParent.removeContent (parent);
>grandParent.addContent (child);
Between those two statements, add:
parent.removeContent(child);
Although you've removed parent from grandparent, since child still has
a parent (parent), it can't have another one (JDOM is into single
motherhood). You have to orphan it, first.
Amy!
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