For those that may run into this problem in the future, possibly I can save them a bit of the grief I went through in figuring this out. I turns out that the implementation of clone() is different in AbstractElement than it is in DefaultElement. In DefaultElement the behaviour of both clone() and createCopy() are indeed a deep copy. However, in AbstractElement the behaviour of clone(), and therefore createCopy(), is a shalllow copy. The fix I employed was simply to copy the code from DefaultElement up to my base element class.
This behaviour is not as per the API documentation which clearly states that AbstractElement .createCopy() is a deep copy. Further that API does not even document that clone() is implemented by AbstractElement. It would be helpful if either the implementation could be changed or at least clearly document the differences in behaviour. Cheers, Joel On Monday 07 June 2004 21:23, Joel Rosi-Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > I have created a custom DocumentFactory implementation to support my > applications model. All works fine except for when I try to use either > createCopy() or clone(). Essentially I just get the original element > returned. I guess I am missing something. What do I need to do either in my > DocumentFactory class or my model classes to get the proper support for > these methods. > > By the way thanks a lot for the great system. I have been using dom4j > extensively for the past three years and this is first support request I > have made. That says an awful lot the both the quality of dom4j and the > thoughtfulness of the api. > > > Cheers, > Joel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ dom4j-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-dev
