[jdom-interest] Sorting JDOM lists
Jason Hunter
jhunter at xquery.com
Mon Mar 8 10:08:12 PST 2004
> Sorting could never change the parent. It just tries to add it in the
> array at a different location.
As Rolf explained, the sort() algorithm has the same element temporarily
exist in two locations in the list.
> Well... why throw the error when the parent hasn't changed?
Because the same node instance can't exist at two locations in a
document, even if under the same parent. If you asked XPath for its
following sibling, there would be two starting points.
-jh-
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