Ah hah! Mixed content, it just happens to be whitespace :-)
All the newlines and whitespace between element tags is a Text node. So the
first Description element would have a index of 3, not 1, in the full content
list (there's a Text node consisting of whitespace before and one after
the Communication tag).

Brad

Kai Woerner writes:

> JDom version is b10, elmt's children are too many to be posted here ;),
> but part of it looks like this (CorpusData being elmt):
>
> <CorpusData>
>  <Communication Id="IDCommunication001" Name="20000">
>   <Description>
>   <Key Name="DArt">Wegauskunft</Key>
>   <Key Name="DProjekt">shik</Key>
>   </Description>
>   <Setting>
>   <Description>
>    <Key Name="Angaben zur konstellation">madagassische Informantin,
> ein Mann und eine Frau</Key>
>   </Description>
>   </Setting>
>   <Recording Id="IDRecording001"/>
>   <Location>
>   <City>Hamburg</City>
>   <Country>Germany</Country>
>   <Period>
>    <PeriodStart>1997-11-23T16:30:00</PeriodStart>
>    <PeriodExact>true</PeriodExact>
>    <PeriodDuration>PT00H00M56S</PeriodDuration>
>   </Period>
>   </Location>
>   <Language>
>   <LanguageCode>GER DE</LanguageCode>
>   </Language>
>  </Communication>
>
> (repeat "Communication"-Elements in similar matter about 450 times, then
> followed by similar Elements called "Speaker")
>
> Kai W�rner
>
>
>
>
>
> Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
>
> > Hmmm, print out elmt's children and see what's there. What version of jdom
> ?
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > Kai Woerner writes:
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Bradley S. Huffman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Use getContent instead of getChildren. getChildren gives a list of *only*
> >>>the element children.
> >>
> >>But the element elmt does only contain element children - no mixed
> >>content whatsoever.
> >>
> >>Kai W�rner
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Brad
> >>>
> >>>Kai Woerner writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I'm experiencing a very odd problem with
> >>>>Element.addContent(index,Content). This is an altered snipplet from the
> >>>>code I have:
> >>>>
> >>>>elmt.addContent(440, newComm);
> >>>>System.out.println("@(protected)));
> >>>>
> >>>>(elmt being a legal element in a jdom-tree, newComm being a new Element)
> >>>>
> >>>>- this would output "inserted at: 220".
> >>>>
> >>>>Of course the code is a bit longer and more complicated, but these two
> >>>>lines are exactly like in my code and the result is alwayy the same:
> >>>>elmt.addContent(200, newComm) would result in 100.
> >>>>
> >>>>Anybody having experienced something like that?
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>>Kai W�rner
> >>>>
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