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Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX
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Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1120 pages
21h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Document Class

JDOM's Document class, summarized in Example 15.1, represents a complete well-formed XML document. As a node, it is the root of the document tree. It enforces most of the rules XML imposes on documents. For example, it is not possible to assign two DocType objects to a single Document object because an XML document cannot have two document type declarations. The single exception to this rule is that it is possible for a Document to be temporarily rootless if it's built by the no-args constructor. In that case, however, almost anything you do with the document other than setting a root element will throw an IllegalStateException. In effect, then, this is just a temporary convenience, not a loophole that allows you to break the ...

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