[jdom-interest] Missing removeContent() methods

[bob mcwhirter]

I think this is a case for a utility class that works with XPath...

	XPath xpath = new JDOMXPath( "/foo/bar/b:az" );

	EtherealUtilityThingy.detachAll( xpath.selectNodes() );


-bob



On Thu, 2 May 2002, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

> Alex Rosen writes:
> 
> > I don't see removeChildren(List). There is a removeChildren(), though I
> > can't think of a reason that anyone would want to remove all child Elements
> > but keep all other content. Maybe this is ripe for removal? If someone
> > really wanted to do that they could just do it manually in a few lines of
> > code.
> 
> Yep and removeChildren(name,namespace) removes only one level down. I think
> the more common case would be to remove all matching elements below the
> context element. To me this one and getChild* are ripe for removal.
> 
> > Hey, didn't we used to have a hasContent(), for efficiency?
> 
> At one time it was need, but now since ContentList is always created it's
> not.
> 
> > I see hasChildren(), but not hasContent().
> 
> hasChildren is ripe for removal IMHO :)
> 
> Brad
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