Question

I am trying to create a new Element using jsoup.

Element constructor:

Element(Tag tag, String baseUri, Attributes attributes) 

I have problems instantiating the Tag object, because the constructor is not visible.

How can I obtain a Tag, apart from getting an existing one from another element?

Answer 1

Use the static generator method valueOf:

Tag t = Tag.valueOf("p");

The reason that Tag doesn’t expose a constructor is that the valueOf method can cache identical objects. For instance, this allows the following code:

Tag u = Tag.valueOf("p");
assert t == u;