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/*--

 Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Jason Hunter & Brett McLaughlin.
 All rights reserved.

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    may "JDOM" appear in their name, without prior written permission
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     "This product includes software developed by the
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 This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
 individuals on behalf of the JDOM Project and was originally
 created by Jason Hunter  and
 Brett McLaughlin .  For more information
 on the JDOM Project, please see .

 */

package org.jdom2.contrib.helpers;

import org.jdom2.*;
import java.util.*;

/**   
 *    This class contains static helper methods. 
 *    
 *    @author Alex Rosen
 *    @deprecated concept has been moved in to core:
 *    	{@link Element#sortContent(Comparator)}
 *    @see Element#sortChildren(Comparator)
 *    @see Element#sortContent(Comparator)
 *    @see Element#sortContent(org.jdom2.filter.Filter, Comparator)
 */
@Deprecated
public class JDOMHelper {
    /**
     * 
     * Sorts the child elements, using the specified comparator.
     * @param parent   The parent Element, whose child Elements should be sorted.
     * @param c        The Comparator to use for ordering the child Elements.
     *                 It will only be given Element objects to compare.
     * 
     * 
     * This method overcomes two problems with the standard Collections.sort():
     * 

     * Collections.sort() doesn't bother to remove an item from its old
     * location before placing it in its new location, which causes JDOM to
     * complain that the item has been added twice.
     * 
This method will sort the child Elements without moving any other
     * content, such as formatting text nodes (newlines, indents, etc.)
     * Otherwise, all the formatting whitespace would move to the beginning
     * or end of the content list.
     * (Note that this means that the elements will now be in a different
     * order with respect to any comments, which may cause a problem
     * if the comments describe the elements.)
     * 
     * 
     */
    public static void sortElements(Element parent, Comparator c) {
        // Create a new, static list of child elements, and sort it.
        List children = new ArrayList(parent.getChildren());
        Collections.sort(children, c);
        ListIterator childrenIter = children.listIterator();
        
        // Create a new, static list of all content items.
        List content = new ArrayList(parent.getContent());
        ListIterator contentIter = content.listIterator();

        // Loop through the content items, and whenever we find an Element,
        // we'll insert the next ordered Element in its place. Because the
        // content list is not live, it won't complain about an Element being
        // added twice.
        while(contentIter.hasNext()) {
            Object obj = contentIter.next();
            if (obj instanceof Element)
                contentIter.set(childrenIter.next());
        }

        // Finally, we set the content list back into the parent Element.
        parent.setContent((List)null);
        parent.setContent(content);
    }
}