All,
Sorry in advance - this is probably a trivial question, but I'm trying
to figure out how to create an XML node, and insert it into a specific
location in an XML document.
It looks like the insertBefore method is what I need.
However, the problem is that it only seems to work if I create the XML
structure one node at a time (using createElement). For example, this
works:
my_xml = new XML("<BASEBALLFIELD />");
my_xml.firstChild.appendChild(my_xml.createElement("FIRSTBASE"));
my_xml.firstChild.appendChild(my_xml.createElement("THIRDBASE"));
my_xml.firstChild.insertBefore(my_xml.createElement("SECONDBASE"),my_xml.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling);
trace(my_xml.toString());
this produces:
"<BASEBALLFIELD><FIRSTBASE /><SECONDBASE /><THIRDBASE /></BASEBALLFIELD>"
However, this doesn't:
var my_xml = new XML();
my_xml.parseXML("<BASEBALLFIELD><FIRSTBASE /><THIRDBASE /></BASEBALLFIELD>");
my_xml.insertBefore(my_xml.createElement("SECONDBASE"),my_xml.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling);
trace(my_xml.toString());
As far as I can tell, these two code samples are identical.
The practical application - I'm loading a large document received from
a webservice (In other words, I haven't created each node using
createElement).
I'd then like to locate a specific node deep in the hierarchy, and try
to insert a new node before it.
I can confirm that the node I'm using for the second parameter of
insertBefore exists (using trace()), so I don't think that's the cause
of the problem.
Many thanks in advance for any help or insight!
Cheers,
Matt Stuehler
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