[jdom-interest] getChildren() returns an empty list.. (please help)

[Malachi de AElfweald]

But didn't Massimo say they could List.iterate()?
You couldn't iterate through an empty list.

10/22/2002 6:29:37 AM, "John L. Webber - Jentro AG" <John.Webber at jentro.com> wrote:

>
>
>Mirabito, Massimo wrote:
>> You will have to forgive me but I am extremely new to JDOM. 
>
>Hope you enjoy JDOM!
>
>> Following is a summary of my problem
>> 
>> 1) XML document
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <security xmlns="s2">
>>   <application>
>>     <application-id>100</application-id>
>>     <application-name>Application 1</application-name>
>>     <application-description>Application 1
>> Description</application-description>
>>     <application-roles>
>>       <role id="1" name="Role 1" description="Role 1 Desc" />
>>       <role id="2" name="Role 2" description="Role 2 Desc" />
>>     </application-roles>
>>   </application>
>>   <user-roles>
>>     <role id="1" name="Role 1" description="Role 1 Desc">
>>       <access id="1" name="can">111111</access>
>>     </role>
>>     <role id="2" name="Role 2" description="Role 2 Desc">
>>       <access id="2" name="irb_id">4444444</access>
>>     </role>
>>   </user-roles>
>> </security>
>> 
>> 3) I can get the root element I check and see if it has children and it
>> returns true.... but when I invoke getChildren() the List size is 0
>> 
>> root = doc.getRootElement();
>> System.out.println("has children " + root.hasChildren());		
>> List appRoles = root.getChildren("application-roles ");
>> System.out.println("Size " + appRoles.size());	
>
>Look at the javadocs for Element.getChildren(String) carefully: "This 
>returns a List of all the child elements nested directly (one level 
>deep) within this element with the given local name and belonging to no 
>namespace, returned as Element objects."
>
>That is why root.hasChildren() returns true, but 
>root.getChildren("application-roles") returns an empty List: the 
><application-roles> element is not nested directly under the root element.
>
>In general, JDOM methods that return lists return an empty list on 
>failure, not null.
>
>Greetings,
>
>John
>
>
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