I'd be interested in seeing a cleaner approach. Thanks.
Larry Mason wrote:
>appendChild is changing the owner of the child node and making it the
>last child of the parent. Therefore it will have no siblings after it.
> You could clone the node and append the clone (if a copy is desired)
>or compute the sibling BEFORE performing the append [which is what your
>workaround is doing altho a cleaner approach can be done]
>HTH,
>Larry
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>>For anyone interested, below is my workaround, although I'd still like
>>to know why my first attempt failed. Thanks..
>>
>>var child = node.firstChild.firstChild;
>>var theID="";
>>var nodeArray = new Array();
>>var i = 0;
>>var myGeometryToAdd = '';
>>while (child != null) {
>> if(child.nodeType==1){
>> nodeArray[i] = child;
>> i=i+1;
>> }
>> child = child.nextSibling;
>>}
>>
>>for (x=0; x<i; x++) {
>> theID = nodeArray[x].getAttributeNS(null,"id");
>> myGeometryToAdd = document.getElementById(theID+"1");
>> myGeometryToAdd.appendChild(nodeArray[x]);
>>}
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>>Sean wrote:
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>>>There is still one thing nagging me about parseXML. Below is a while
>>>loop that should work, at least as far as I know, but doesn't. The
>>>alerts display the contents of the node, thank you ctl271. If I comment
>>>out "myGeometryToAdd.appendChild(child);", all of the child nodes in the
>>>loop and all of the "myGeometryToAdd" are iterated through, as is proven
>>>by the alerts. Which is all well and good, but I need to append those
>>>child nodes, which is where the problems arise. After the first child
>>>is appended with "myGeometryToAdd.appendChild(child);", the loop stops.
>>>When it gets to the second child node it is set to null.
>>>
>>>
>>>var child = node.firstChild.firstChild;
>>>var theID;
>>>var myGeometryToAdd;
>>>while (child != null) {
>>> if(child.nodeType==1){
>>> theID = child.getAttributeNS(null,"id");
>>> myGeometryToAdd = document.getElementById(theID+"1");
>>> alert(window.printNode(child));
>>> alert(window.printNode(myGeometryToAdd));
>>> myGeometryToAdd.appendChild(child);
>>> }
>>> child = child.nextSibling;
>>>}
>>>
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