[jdom-interest] Problems with Collections.sort(List,Comparator)

[Marcel Heuzer]

Hi,

When I try to sort a list of children with this code:


  public Element getListSortedByString(Element element) {
 
    try {
      List list = element.getChildren();
      Collections.sort(list, new ContentTagComparator());
      element.setChildren(list);
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace(System.out);
    }
    return element;

  }

  public class ContentTagComparator implements Comparator {
      
    public int compare(Object o1,Object o2) {

      String s1 = ((Element)o1).getText();
      String s2 = ((Element)o2).getText();
      int result = s1.compareTo(s2);
      return result;
    }

  }

I get this exception at the end of Collections.sort(list, new ContentTagComparator()); process:

org.jdom.IllegalAddException: The element already has an existing parent
 at org.jdom.ContentList.add(ContentList.java:190)

 at org.jdom.ContentList.add(ContentList.java:146)

 at org.jdom.ContentList.set(ContentList.java:663)

 at org.jdom.ContentList$FilterListIterator.set(ContentList.java:1150)

 at java.util.Collections.sort(Unknown Source)



Is it a bug ?
Is there another way to sort elements content ?

Thanks

Marcel Heuzer

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