Have you tried to use <Element>.detach() like in the code I sent?
--Evan

Devang Joshi wrote:
> I am trying to delete first device element from my xml document.
> iterateToDevicePosition() function returns me the first device element,
> But doc.remove() did not work for me. (Note: doc has the parsed xml
> file)
>
> //Now delete the first device element
> Element dummyElem = iterateToDevicePosition();
> //Now dummy element has the element I want to remove
> doc.remove(dummyElem); //This does not remove it from the doc???
>
> Thanks,
> Devang
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evan S.
> Kirkconnell
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:52 AM
> To: dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] convert String to Element
>
> (Element)DocumentHelper.parseText(xml).getRootElement().detach()
>
> As a forewarning, I think this creates the element in the null
> namespace.  If you need it in the xhtml namespace, you may have to do a
> little more work.
> --Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Devang Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:44 pm
> Subject: [dom4j-user] convert String to Element
> To: dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>   
>> I am trying to create clone of element then convert the element to
>> string. Do some string manipulation and then convert the string 
>> back to
>> element.  
>>
>> //***This will insert new elements inside the clone*** 
>> Element newElement = (Element) currElement.clone(); 
>>
>> //***We need to replace few values in the new element so convert to
>> string*** 
>> String strElem = newElement.asXML(); 
>>
>> // Do something with string (internal logic) 
>>
>> How do I convert string to element and insert that in my xml
>> document????????????????????????? 
>>
>> //this would put the element in the doc 
>> this.insertElementAt(newElement, this.root.indexOf(currElement)+1);
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Devang
>>
>> 972-550-2746
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     
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