Jeff Mackay wrote:
>
> > If I delete a node in a DOM tree I'm assuming *all* of the children are
> > effectively deleted as well.
>
> Actually, DOM doesn't provide a way to "delete" a node. You can remove
> a node from its parent, which effectively removes the node as well as all
> of its children and attributes. But the node still exists, as do its
> children
> and attributes (perhaps to move to another portion of the document, or to
> import into another document). I believe that any "delete" mechanism is
> implementation specific.
Sorry for jumping into this discussion, but when you say that the node
still exists after you remove it, what happens when I do the following?
nodeToDelete.getParentNode().deleteChildNode(nodeToDelete);
Is it not "deleted"?
Can I still access nodeToDelete somehow?
/Christian
