the nodeName = #text is the "empty" text between <Doc:Id></Doc:Id>
I think if you play with nodes you could just check that if it has 1 child and the nodeName = #text and theText == "" just remove it. Marouane On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 11:28, jadiyo wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following xml fragment: > > <Doc:AcctId> > <Doc:Id> > <Doc:IBAN>SETTLEMENT SOURCE ACCOUNT IBAN</Doc:IBAN> > </Doc:Id> > </Doc:AcctId> > > I use the following code to remove the IBAN element from the XML > > Node ibanNode = <code to get theNode for the IBAN> > Node parentNode = ibanNode.getParentNode(); > parentNode.removeChild(ibanNode); > > This works fine, leaving just this : > > <Doc:AcctId> > <Doc:Id></Doc:Id> > </Doc:AcctId> > > After we have removed the child, we want to check the parentNode to see > whether it has more children. In this case, the Id element doesn't have > anymore children. > However, a call to parent.hasChildNodes() return true. > This is NOT what I expected. So, I iterated over the child nodes and output > the node name for each of the the nodes. I got the following result > > nodeName = #text > nodeName = #text > > > Essentially, what I want to do is remove a child from its parent and remove > the parent if it has no more children and so on and so forth, but as > mentioned above, the parent node seems to have unexpected children. > > > Thanks in advance for your help > > Jadiyo > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/removeChild-from-parent-problem-t1555677.html#a4225767 > Sent from the Xml Beans - User forum at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
