XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT ccil.org>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Is it that you'd like an HTMLElement 
> that could only be a child of an HTMLElement or an HTMLDocument, but 
> could not be a child of a generic Document or Element?

Exactly.

> I guess I'm stuck on the fact that with the notable exception of 
> Schematron, most validity rules flow from the parent top the child, 
> not the other way around. When we write a DTD or a schema we list the 
> allowed children, not the allowed parents.

I'd like there to be a way for any attempt to add a ParagraphElement
to an HTMLElement to introduce a BodyElement between them, but
the check methods can't accomplish that.

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