[jdom-interest] Moving elements closer to the root

[Amy Lewis]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:37:30AM +0100, Thomas Nichols wrote:
>Good Day,
>Previous discussions on detach() et al haven't yet guided me to a solution 
>to this one - all help welcome.
>I want to convert
><a>
>   <b>
>     <c>
>     Some mixed content.
>     </c>
>   </b>
></a>
>
>to
><a>
>   <c>
>   Some mixed content.
>   </c>
></a>
>
>i.e. I want to make the _child_ part of the content of the _grandparent_, 
>making the parent redundant.
>
>If Element grandParent is <a>, parent is <b> and child is <c>, I'm trying 
>the following:
>
>grandParent.removeContent (parent);
>grandParent.addContent (child);

Between those two statements, add:
parent.removeContent(child);

Although you've removed parent from grandparent, since child still has
a parent (parent), it can't have another one (JDOM is into single
motherhood).  You have to orphan it, first.

Amy!
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