[jdom-interest] why can't I sort this list?

[Alex Rosen]

I couldn't think of a good way to make Collections.sort() work with our
lists. Instead, I wrote a different sort method that would work:

http://www.servlets.com/archive/servlet/ReadMsg?msgId=211785&listName=jdom-i
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Or, you can do:

// Make a new list, with the same contents, that's not live
// (i.e. not attached to the parent Element).
List temp = new ArrayList(listOfChildren);
Collections.sort(temp);
// Set the contents of the parent to the new, ordered list.
parentElement.setContent(temp);

Alex