[jdom-interest] getChildren(String) implementation

[Reinhard Nägele]

The Element's getChildren(String) method returns a list that is a view 
on the whole content list. As a result, adding elements to this list 
doesn't take the view into account. Unfortunately...

Look at the following example XML:

<myRoot>
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement2 />
</myRoot>

I was doing something like this:

List list = myRoot.getChildren("myElement1");
list.add(new Element("myElement1"));

I expected to get the following:

<myRoot>
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement2 />
</myRoot>

But of course, the result was this:

<myRoot>
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement1 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement2 />
    <myElement1 />
</myRoot>


 From looking at the JDOM source, I understand why I get this result, 
but I think this could have been implemented differently. Wouldn't it be 
desirable that the view on the whole list knew where to insert new 
elements, i. e. any insert on the view were relative to the view?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Reinhard