Hi Toby
> A Comparator would be nice in the meantime.
I've checked in a NodeComparator class in the org.dom4j.util pacakge in CVS.
It should show up soon in a daily build.
The org.dom4j.TestClone JUnit test uses it to verify equality of cloned
documents and elements. (I also check that changing an attribute value or
adding some text content to a leaf node means the documents are no longer
equal too ;-)
> Ok, But as a already mentioned above it is only a minor chracteristic.
> Althoug it would provide clearer colde.
> ((Element)root.getElements().get(2)).getText();
> is no so easy to read...
Agreed. Generics does help code readability much more than anything else.
Though I like XPath for this too...
Even without the cast, compare...
root.elements().get(2).getText();
with
root.valueOf( "foo[2]" );
The XPath version of the above code gets more and more cleaner as the
navigation path gets more complex. e.g.
root.elements("foo").get(2).element("bar").attributeValue( "name" );
or
root.valueOf( "foo[2]/bar/@name" );
James
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