Re: [xmljs-users] deep copy nodes between xml documents with JS

[David J. <dj...@ya...>]

What XML do you get after your clone/import? I won't be able to look at this until tonight, but
what you're describing should work -at least on first inspection...

David

--- Barry Beattie <Ba...@al...> wrote:

> hi all
> 
> I've got a simple xml doc loaded on a page. I then get an additional xml
> doc using the xmlhttprequest object.
> 
> what I want to do is get a deep copy of a particular node from the
> additional doc and append it to the first one.
> 
> I've tried importNode(), various combinations of cloneNode(), et all,
> but can't seem to snag it.
> 
> can anyone see where I'm going wrong?
> 
> thanx
> barry.b
> 
> 
> here's the JS, run after the xmlhttprequest object gets each additional
> doc
> 
> 	function addAddressToMasterDoc(xmlAddress){
> 		var addressNode = xmlAddress.firstChild;
> 		masterXmlDoc.importNode(addressNode);
> 	} 
> 
> 
> 
> masterXmlDoc (before):
> =========================
> <entity id="12345" type="student">
> 	<fname>Fred</fname>
> 	<lname>Flintstone</lname>
> </entity>
> 
> 
> xmlAddress:
> =====================
> <address addrType="residential">
> 	<addr1>12 stone st</addr1>
> 	<addr2>Bedrock</addr2>
> </address>
> 
> masterXmlDoc (after - what I'm trying to get):
> ==============================
> <entity id="12345" type="student">
> 	<fname>Fred</fname>
> 	<lname>Flintstone</lname>
> 	<address addrType="residential">
> 		<addr1>12 stone st</addr1>
> 		<addr2>Bedrock</addr2>
> 	</address>
> </entity>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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