[jdom-interest] Child number

[Noam Tamim]

Something as simple as

Iterator it=allChildren.iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
 if ( ((Element)it.next()).getTextTrim().equals("B") ) it.remove();
}

will do the job. You DON'T need to know the number, as the Iterator
supports removing elements.


> > I have a XML doc as below:
> > 
> > <sample>
> >        <child> A </child>
> >        <child> B </child>
> >        <child> C </child>
> >        ...
> > </sample>
> > 
> > How do I know "B" is the text of the 2rd child?
> > I need to know the child number so I can use
> > the method remove(int child#).
> > Ex: allChildren.remove(3) //remove the third child



=====
Noam.

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