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<P><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi!</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm new to JDOM and i use beta 8.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">My problem is that i would like to extract the first line of my XML document (<? xml etc... ?>).</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So i use the getContent() method on my JDOM Document but i just get one element representing the root element and nothing more...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Here is my piece of code :</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">java.util.List list = theDoc.getContent();</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">java.util.ListIterator iter = list.listIterator();</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">while (iter.hasNext())</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">{</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Object obj = iter.next();</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">if (obj instanceof org.jdom.ProcessingInstruction)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">{</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">// do things...</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">break;</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">}</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">}</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I tried to put comments and i could extract them. It's just like if the parsing operation delete the only line i would like to have ... so frustrating...</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hope one could help because i read Jason's response on nearly the same question but... it doesn't work for me.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="fr"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Francois</FONT></SPAN>
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