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

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

Does this help? 
http://xmljs.sourceforge.net/website/documentation-w3cdom-DOMDocument.html#DOMDocumentImportNode

I'm still baffled by what you're trying to do...

David

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

> 
> ach, I've narrowed it down. It's the adding of the other doc's element
> to the fragment that it doesn't like
> 
> // xmlToAdd and masterXmlDoc are both xml docs
> 
> addrToAdd = xmlToAdd.documentElement;
> doc_frag = masterXmlDoc.createDocumentFragment();
> doc_frag.appendChild(addrToAdd); ////// here \\\\\
> masterAddressRoot =
> masterXmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("addresses").item(0);
> masterAddressRoot.appendChild(doc_frag);
> alert(masterXmlDoc); 
> 
> I've seen lots of examples where the "guts" of the fragment is created
> (createElement) but no where is it an existing node of another doc.
> 
> is this the correct reference to the other xml node?
> 
> thanx
> barry.b
> 
> BTW, this works just fine
> 
> addrToAdd = xmlToAdd.documentElement;
> // get the parent the "address" node
> masterAddressRoot =
> masterXmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("addresses").item(0);
> doc_frag = masterAddressRoot.importNode(addrToAdd, true);
> masterAddressRoot.appendChild(doc_frag);
> alert(masterXmlDoc);
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Joham [mailto:dj...@ya...] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 December 2004 2:13 AM
> To: Barry Beattie; xml...@li...
> Subject: RE: [xmljs-users] deep copy nodes between xml documents with JS
> 
> > all I gotta do is turn "xmlFragment" (not a real DocumentFragment yet)
> > into something I can insert into the master 
> > 
> > there isn't really a copyNode(deep) or insertFragment(node) is
> there...
> 
> Creating a DOMDocumentFragment and inserting it into the document using
> the standard
> append*/insert* methods should do the trick for you.
> 
> http://xmljs.sourceforge.net/website/documentation-w3cdom-DOMDocument.ht
> ml#DOMDocumentCreateDocumentFragment
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide
> Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users.
> Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now.
> http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/
> _______________________________________________
> xmljs-users mailing list
> xml...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmljs-users
>