I suspect you're using an older version of JDOM. In the latest beta
10 version getParent() returns a Parent object rather than an Object,
and therefore I doubt you could have gotten away with what you did.
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 Elliotte Rusty Harold
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 Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
 http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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