I was wondering. Is it safe to cast Node to Element? I am using the selectSingleNode method, which gives me a Node instance, but I need an Element instance, to be able to set CDATA data on the node/element.
I have seen a lot of code when googling, that simply casts the return value of selectSingleNode to Element, but is it safe? From an example in the dom4j cookbook, I see that selectNodes() returns an (untyped) List, where each list entry then is casted to Element, like this: XPath xpathSelector = DocumentHelper.createXPath("/people/ pers...@name='James']"); List results = xpathSelector.selectNodes(doc); for ( Iterator iter = result.iterator(); iter.hasNext(); ) { Element element = (Element) iter.next(); System.out.println(element.getName(); } Does the same hold for selectSingleNode() ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user