[jdom-interest] parentless DOM nodes created by DOMOutputter

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 8:20 PM -0700 4/17/02, Jason Hunter wrote:
>Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>>
>>  At 3:41 PM -0400 4/17/02, Alex Rosen wrote:
>>  >Couldn't we just let the user pass in the DOM Document for us to use? Seems
>>  >easy, but looking at the DOMOutputter code and not understanding it at all,
>>  >I'm not sure.
>>  >
>>
>>  There are already two methods that do exactly that. I'm suggesting we
>>  get rid of the two methods oin which we don't pass a Document object.
>
>But they're protected.  Hmm, should they be public?
>

Maybe. I guess the real question is what is the use-case for these? 
How often is someone going to want to import a JDOM node into a DOM 
Document? Keep in mind that even after importing it, it still won't 
be a pat of the DOM tree. The programmer will still need to attach it 
to the tree at some point.

If we are going to have these. I think we should add the rest for 
completeness; e.g. methods to output Comment, ProcessingInstruction, 
Text, etc.
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