[jdom-interest] Replace existing CDATA

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 12:23 AM -0600 2/16/02, Jason Long wrote:
>I have an Element name as follows:
>
>   <name num="1">
>     <![CDATA[Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend - 02 - No Woman No Cry.mp3]]>
>   </name>
>
>I am using the following code to remove the CDATA and replace it with a
>processed version of itself.
>
>   eltName.removeContent((CDATA) eltName.getContent().get(0));
>   eltName.addContent(new CDATA(fileName));
>
>Is there a cleaner or better way to accomplish this?
>

Just looking at it I don't think that code would work. It seems to me 
that it would throw a ClasscastException. eltName.getContent().get(0) 
would not return the CDATA section node. It would return the first 
text node which contains only white space.
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