[jdom-interest] converting from DOM elements to JDOM elements

[Leon C. Webster]

We have a small application that we want to migrate to JDOM.  It uses XML 
messages to communicate between some JSP/Servlets on the one hand and a set 
of business operations in the "back end".  When these business operations 
receive a message, it is handed to a class parses message and constructs 
various domain objects from each of the 1st level children in the message.  
Right now, these domain objects have a constructor that takes a DOM Element. 
We will change that so the constructor takes an JDOM element. 

The only problem is that one of the domain objects has a very complex 
constructor, and we would like to put off converting that to JDOM for a 
while.  So, my question is, is there a way to get the original DOM node or 
element from a JDOM element? 

Thanks much. 

Leon Webster