[jdom-interest] How to "crash" JDOM, part 1

[Aleksi Kallio]

This little bit of software makes JDOM (or XMLOutputter, to be precise) to enter an infite loop (built against a week old CVS). The code is of course a result of an evil mistake, but anyway, shouldn't the behaviour be better defined? 


  Element element = new Element("looped");
  
  Element copy = element.getCopy("copy");
  copy.addContent(copy); // bang!
  
  new XMLOutputter().output(new Document(copy), System.out);