XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT a.cs.okstate.edu>]

John Cowan writes:

> Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:
> 
> > >   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.
> 
> I suggest
> 
>       Element detachRootElement()
> 
> which returns the old root and creates a new root named "XOM:bogus" or the 
> li
> ke.

Or take the JDOM approach and throw a exception for any operation that follows
except for one's that would make it a well-formed document.

Brad