[jdom-interest] Element.clone()

Ken Rune Helland kenh at csc.no
Tue Jun 12 04:52:28 PDT 2001


At 12:20 PM 6/12/2001 +0100, Kenworthy, Edward wrote:
>Does Element.clone() work in a non-obvious way ?
>
>I would expect a cloned element to have the same parent, but it doesn't
>appear to.

An element's clone does not have any parent because it is not in the
original element's parent's content.


Clone gives you a deep copy from the element and down the subtree
the element is the root of.


KenR




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