[jdom-interest] Problem with the clone method in Document (latest version)

Jason Hunter jhunter at collab.net
Wed Aug 23 19:07:35 PDT 2000


Richard McAneny wrote:
> 
> I have found a problem with the clone method in Document with the tip
> version (and prior) of JDOM: In the clone method the root element is 
> being added twice.

Good bug find.  I fixed it in CVS.  

> Here is my sample code to see this happen.
> 
>         Element docRoot = new Element("test");
>         Element child = new Element("child1");
>         child.setText("hello");
>         docRoot.addContent(child);
>         Document document = new Document(docRoot);
>         Document document2 = (Document) document.clone();
> 
> throws the following exception:

Just ran the code and no exception.  :-)

-jh-



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