XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 2:23 PM -0400 4/13/04, John Cowan wrote:

> Hmm, this is troubling:
>
>         Element e1 = new SomeElementSubclass(...);
>         Element e2 = e1.copy();
>         anElement.appendChild(e1);
>         anotherElement.appendChild(e2);
>
> might wind up attaching the (same) element to anotherElement and leaving
> anElement with nothing?


I don't see how. Even if copy() returned this, the second appendChild 
call would throw a MultipleParentException. Or were you thinking of 
something else?
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