XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 12:15 PM -0400 9/25/02, John Cowan wrote:


> >  Hmm, you know now that you mention it, this isn't so trivial. The one
> >  element you can't detach is the root element because that would make
> >  its document malformed. If this is a common use-case, I'll need to
> >  figure out how to support that.
>
> I finally see how to do this:
>
>         Document main = new Builder().build("main.xml");
>         Document aux = new Builder().build("aux.xml");
>         Element holder = main.getChild(1).getChild(3).getChild(5);  // 
> whatever
>         Element auxroot = aux.getRootElement();
>         aux.setRootElement(new Element("bogus"));
>         holder.appendChild(auxroot);

Yes, that should work. The main question is how to make the API 
pretty, even if that's what we're doing behind the scenes.
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