Well-Formed Documents Revisited
One more thing that requires comment is the structure of the output from these reporting examples. When a stylesheet and JDOM are transformed, the results are stored in another JDOM document and then output. This means that the results of the transformation must be well-formed; otherwise, an error will occur, and potentially unpredictable results will follow.
In all of our examples, the output was an HTML table. This table element forms the root of the resulting JDOM document. However, if an element is added before or after the table element, the resulting JDOM document no longer has a root element. Go ahead and add an HTML font element with some text before the start of the table to one of the stylesheets. When ...
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