[jdom-interest] Remove elements

[John L. Webber - Jentro AG]

Hi Dilip,

You need to remove the elements from their parent element, not from the
list. Try

dataRs.removeContent(elemSection);

or, if you want to use the element somewhere else

Element freeElement = elemSection.detach();
//Now you can insert freeElement into another element.

The API docs have plenty of information about this.

Regards,

John


"Ladhani, Dilip" wrote:

> I am trying to remove some elements from an xml doc based on some logic. Heres a sample of what I am doing.
> 
> List listSections = dataRs.getChildren("ABC");
> Iterator iterSections = listSections.iterator();
> while(iterSections.hasNext()){
> elemSection =  (Element) iterSections.next();
> if(elemSection.getChildTextTrim("HDG").equalsIgnoreCase("XYX"){
>         iterSections.remove();
> }
> }
> 
> After this, when I try to print the xml, the elements which are supposed to be removed are still present!! I also tried using listSections.detach() instead of iterSections.remove(), but that didn't work either.
> What am I doing wrong????
> 
> In general, how do I remove elements??

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