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- From: James Todd <jwtodd@pacbell.net>
- To: Steve Muench <smuench@us.oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 22:44:36 -0800
hmmm ... this is pretty much what i did with the exception of
the "removeChild()" step. my interpretation of this is that the
removeChild step will disassociate/null the OwnerDocument
so that it is effectively orphaned and can be added into the
new hosting doc.
i'll give it a whirl.
thx much,
- james
Steve Muench wrote:
> Assuming you have XML DOM Documents "one" and "two"
> and that "oneElement" is the element in doc "one"
> to which you'd like to append the entire content
> of "two"...
>
> You should be able to do:
>
> Element twoDocElt = two.getDocumentElement();
> two.removeChild(twoDocElt);
> oneElement.appendChild(twoDocElt);
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Todd <jwtodd@pacbell.net>
> To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 9:43 PM
> Subject: q: i'd like to merge two docs ...
>
> |
> | hi -
> |
> | i could use a pointer or two, a recipe if you will, on how best to
> | "modify and merge" two xml docs. the scenario:
> |
> | an inbound xml "fragment", a complete xml doc in it's own
> | right, is amended (eg. one new attribute is added)
> |
> | the results of which is appended, as a child node, to a
> | "hosting" xml tree
> |
> | i've got most of this working using the ProjectX [? Mr. Brownell ?]
> | parser yet it fails during the appendChild() stating that the child
> | node
> |
> | "That node doesn't belong in this document"
> |
> | due to the fact, i believe, that it has a distinct OwnerDocument.
> |
> | my methodology to date is to create dom's for both the inbound
> | "fragment" and the destination xml docs afterwhich i'd like to
> | modify
> | the fragment (hence going the dom route) and finally add the results
> |
> | to the destination doc via appendChild().
> |
> | i had hoped to bypass walking the tree in order to create an
> | "document ownerless" copy with which to work with. is there
> | a better/preferred means by which to accomplish this task?
> |
> | any/all comments and suggestions welcomed.
> |
> | thx much,
> |
> | - james
> |
> |
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