From: "Mitch Gitman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm trying to drill down a few levels from the root element of a document > and then remove an element. I obtain a reference to the element I want to > remove plus its parent, and I call: > parentElement.remove(childElement); > > I get an org.dom4j.IllegalAddException. What's interesting about the > exception is that it describes the addition of the root element to a null > branch. It's like dom4j doesn't know to stop before it gets to this point: > org.dom4j.IllegalAddException: The node > "org.dom4j.tree.DefaultElement@8941f7 [Element: <wsdl:definitions uri: > http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/ attributes: [org > .dom4j.tree.DefaultAttribute@49d67c [Attribute: name targetNamespace value > "urn: > other.root"]]/>]" could not be added to the branch "null" because: The Node alr > eady has an existing document: org.dom4j.tree.DefaultDocument@b4e29b > [Document: name file:/C:/ALLDOCS/CODE/GENERAL/output/deploy/idea.wsdl] > at org.dom4j.tree.DefaultDocument.addNode(DefaultDocument.java:253) > at org.dom4j.tree.AbstractBranch.add(AbstractBranch.java:221) > at > org.dom4j.tree.AbstractDocument.setRootElement(AbstractDocument.java:
I don't understand how calling parentElement.remove() can invoke the setRootElement() method on Document. Any chance you could show us a snippet of the code you're using, or maybe a full stack trace. >From the stack trace you've provided it looks like you're trying to add an Element to a Document which is already connected to another Document - hence the exception. If you want to remove an Element from one document so that you can add it to another, use detach(). Document one = ...; DocumentFactory factory = new DocumentFactory(); Document two = factory.createDocument(); Element element = one.getRootElement(); // remove the root element of one and add it to two two.setRootElement( element.detach() ); James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
