[jdom-interest] Moving Subtrees using JDOM

[Joan Roch]

Hi,

As I said before, but apparently there is a debate lurking in there, the best solution, IMHO, would be to have a common interface for Element, Text, CDATA, etc. where the detach() method would be defined (among a few others). This would greatly simplify the casting operation in the loop over the List, and add some structure to the API.

The impact would be null, and the benefits quite interesting. And the interface could be written in just a few minutes. 

But then again, I have been told that the debate shouldn't be started all over again... :)


Regards,


Joan


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On 2002-02-23 at 10:59 Jason Hunter wrote:

>Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
>> 
>> At 5:57 AM -0800 2/23/02, Noam Tamim wrote:
>> 
>> >So how about adding the suggested elt.addContent(List) that will
>iterate over
>> >
>> >that list, do all the casts needed, detach whatever needs detaching,
>then add
>> >it to elt?
>> >Should be a simple method, I think. Only thing to consider is if it
>should be
>> >a method of Element, or a utility method in jdom.contrib.
>> >
>> 
>> Either way, this is tricky. For instance, what if something in the
>> list doesn't need to be detached?
>
>Well, detach() is a no-op for parentless objects.
>
>The downside with the auto-detach idea is that addContent(Element)
>doesn't auto-detach and will throw if you try to add a parented object. 
>addContent(List) shouldn't behave differently.  And my gut instinct is
>addContent(Element) shouldn't be changed to remove children from
>parents.
>
>-jh-
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