XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Is there any way to do this without appending the node itself? Hmm, 
> seems like there might be:
> 
> a.appendChild(b);
> b.appendChild(c);
> c.appendChild(a);
> 
> This is a problem. It seems like it could require insertChild descend 
> the entire subtree to  verify the insertion is OK. Ugly. Does anyone 
> see a simple, fast way to fix this?

"Piffle.  A trifle."
        --the incredibly arrogant Eastern Empire wizard from Mercedes Lackey 
books

Ascend the "this" object's parent chain for the proposed child object.
If it's there, throw.  If you reach the Document object safely, all is well.
The first two calls above will be fine because b is not an ancestor of a
and c is not an ancestor of b.  But since a *is* an ancestor of c, 
sproinggg....

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