Any ideas how we do this apart from the long-winded use of
someElement.elements()?
Thanks,
Portia
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On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 07:16 pm, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apologies for pestering you with this tedious question, but I've been
> banging me head for the last few days.
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> List ps = Dom4jUtils.selectNodes(loadedDoc, "//p");
> Element thisP = (Element)ps.get(i);
> Element pParent = thisP.getParent();
>
> // attempt 1: this removes the target element and appends its
> replacement
> to the end of the doc
> pParent.remove(thisP);
> pParent.add(tempElement);
>
> // attempt 2: this doesn't work >> ArrayOutOfBoundsException
> // java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 2, Size: 0
> // pParent.remove(thisP);
> // pParent.selectNodes("//p").add(i, tempElement);
>
> // attempt 3: document looks exactly like it did before replacement
> // pParent.selectNodes("//p").remove(i);
> // pParent.selectNodes("//p").add(i, tempElement);
selectNodes() returns a query list and it is not editable.
If you want to use a List to edit the elements use the elements() method
pParent.elements("p").remove(i);
pParent.elements("p") add(i, tempElement);
James
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