[jdom-interest] How to replace an Element with Text?

[Bradley S. Huffman]

Brad Cox writes:

> Thanks! That was exactly the problem. But the solution still eludes.
> 
> After rewriting like this: (no such class as Parent, and Element 
> doesn't do indexOf()):
> 
> 	    Element parent = e.getParent();
> 	    List siblings = parent.getChildren();
> 	    int index = siblings.indexOf(e);
>              Text t = new Text("#radioElement('"+nameAttr+"' 
> '"+valueAttr+"' '"+buf+"')");
> 	    siblings.set(index, t);
> 
> I get this error:
> org.jdom.IllegalAddException: Filter won't allow index 0 to be set to 
> org.jdom.Text at 
> org.jdom.ContentList$FilterList.set(ContentList.java:835)
> Looks like JDOM is onto this and is determined to stop it. Time for 
> bigger hammers? ;)

Skip using getChildren which gives a filtered view of only Elements and use
the indexOf defined on Element.

    Element parent = e.getParent();
    int index = parent.indexOf(e);

Brad

Go Pokes!!!