[jdom-interest] "Cloning" Problem

[Jason Hunter]

The new clone is detached from its parent and stands alone, thus
getParent() returns null.  I just modified the clone() Javadocs to make
this clearer.

-jh-

> Wang K H wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just started using JDOM and I am facing a problem with the clone()
> method of Element.
> 
> My code is as follows :
> 
>       Element tempNode = (Element)currentNode.clone();
>       System.out.println("Parent " +
> currentNode.getParent().getName());
>       while(tempNode.getParent() != null)
>       {
>         currentNodeHName = tempNode.getName() + "/" +
> currentNodeHName;
>         tempNode = tempNode.getParent();
>         System.out.println("Path " + currentNodeHName);
>       }
> The first print statement shows the name of the parent. The second
> print statement did not even get printed. This means that after the
> cloning, the parent is lost, that's why the while loop is not entered.
> Is this a known problem or there is something wrong with my code.
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help.
>