[jdom-interest] changing / controlling the order of adding children to Elements

Jason Hunter jhunter at collab.net
Thu Mar 29 21:08:50 PST 2001


The answer to this is the same as for the FAQ question, "How do I add a
PI or Comment before the root element?"  See
http://jdom.org/docs/faq.html.

-jh-

Anand Sankaran wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Can we control the 'location' in which we add children to an
> Element?
> 
> For instance,
> 
>         Element rootElement = ....;
> 
>         rootElement.addContent(x);
>         addATonOfElements(rootElement);
> 
>         //DTD says that y should be before
>         //addATonOfElements and immediately after x
> 
>         rootElement.addContent(y);
> 
> If my business logic forces me to add 'y' as a child only after
> addATonOfElements() is called but my DTD defines this element to
> be added before addATonOfElements(), how do I handle this?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - anand
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