On 3 Feb 2010, at 00:28, Robert Monaghan wrote:

> Its a fairly deep copy. There are several nodes deep.
> I am trying to copy parts of the tree, so that I don't have to write code to 
> regenerate them.

No.  The question was not "is your tree deep?" but is the "copy" method 
implemented by NSXMLNode a deep or shallow copy i.e. does it copy the children 
of the node too or just reference the existing ones.

If it's a deep copy, you should be able to do copyNode = [node copy];


> 
> bob.
> 
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Feb 2, 2010, at 4:16 PM, Robert Monaghan wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there an easy way to clone an XML tree in Cocoa? Or will I be going thru 
>>> recursion code hell?
>> 
>> Did you try -copy? NSXMLNode implements NSCopying. The only question is 
>> whether it's a deep or a shallow copy.
>> 
>> —Jens
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