It works . . . thanks a bunch . . .
Peet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: replaceChild
> Mr. Sneekes,
>
> No your interpretation about [#document: null] and dom.toString() is not
> exactly correct.
> The implementation of toString is as follows:
>
> public String toString() {
> return "["+getNodeName()+": "+getNodeValue()+"]";
> }
>
> According to the DOM1 specification the following are the name
> and value for a DOM Document:
>
> name = #document
> value = null
>
> Therefore this is not a bug.
>
> Going back to your original request this is what I had in mind:
>
> Node nodeClonedFromAnotherDocument;
> nodeClonedFromAnotherDocument = parsedDom.importNode(theRealElement,
true);
> // This copies theRealElement from another document into parsedDOM
>
> parsedDom.replaceChild( nodeClonedFromAnotherDocument, theElement);//
> replace theElement with nodeClonedFromAnotherDocument
>
>
> You can pass your document to the dom.DOMWriter printer method
> to traverse the dom and print out your document this would show
> your "theElement" node replaced by the nodeClonedFromAnotherDocument.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeffrey Rodriguez
> XML Development
> IBM Cupertino
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> >From: "Peet Sneekes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Peet Sneekes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Jeffrey Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >CC: "Xerces Mailgroup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: replaceChild
> >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:45:20 +0100
> >
> >Hi Jeffrey,
> >
> >I thought this would work, but both (parent) Documents seems to be
> >[#document: null] if I do Document dom.toString(). And if I look in the
> >Xerces 1.0.2 code this check is made before replaceChild() can be done.
Is
> >this a bug of the Xerces DomParser?
> >
> >What to do?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Peet
> >
> >New code:
> > parsedDom.importNode(theRealElement, true);
> > parsedDom.replaceChild(theElement, theElement);
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jeffrey Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 12:47 PM
> >Subject: Re: replaceChild
> >
> >
> > > Mr. Sneekes, I think that the way to do this is by using
> > > the org.w3c.dom.Document public importNode method.
> > >
> > > Node importNode(Node importedNode,
> > > boolean deep)
> > > throws DOMException;
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jeffrey Rodriguez
> > > XML4J Development
> > > IBM Cupertino
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: "Peet Sneekes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Reply-To: "Peet Sneekes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >To: "Xerces Mailgroup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >Subject: replaceChild
> > > >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:31:07 +0100
> > > >
> > > >Hi,
> > > >
> > > >I want to replace an Element of a Document with another Element from
> > > >another
> > > >Document.
> > > >So I first clone the new Element and than I do replaceChild() (see
> >sample
> > > >code).
> > > >
> > > >Still it gives the "DOM005 Wrong document" error.
> > > >
> > > >Any suggestions? Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >Peet Sneekes,
> > > >Mediamatic IP,
> > > >Amsterdam
> > > ><< sampleCode.java >>
> > >
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