[jdom-interest] Moving Subtrees using JDOM

[Jason Hunter]

Rocker Bill wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Without getting myself too lost, I am trying to move a sequence of elements
> with associated content from one top level parent to another, within the
> same document... such as...
> 
> <root>
> <ele1>
>    <ele2>
>       <ele3/>
>    </ele2>
> </ele1>
> <ele4>
> </ele4>
> </root>
> 
> In the above case, I want to move the subtree containing ele2 and ele3 from
> the parent, ele1, to beneath the new parent ele4 (ele2 and ele3 will also
> have associated content).

ele4.addContent(ele2.detach());

That should be all you need.  ele2 will take his children.  We're
talking about if you want to move ele1 and ele4 (siblings) to a
different root that you have to do it iteratively.

-jh-