XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> How much nesting would typically be required to expose this? 

Good question: I have no clue.  But if you have gobs of threads,
there won't be nearly as much stack.

> >A way to avoid the API wart would be to check if the element to be copied
> >is an actual Element or a subclass, and in the latter case, using
> >sourceElement.getClass().newInstance() to call the argless constructor.
> 
> But the subclass may not have a no-args constructor.

Fair enough; Element doesn't, after all.  You could use reflection to
look for the constructor with a single String argument, though, and
blow chunks if there isn't one.

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