Thanks everybody.
This method doesn't work. I think because imporNode() can't import a
document node. however, I tried another way,
Element doc2Root = sourceDoc.getDocumentElement();
Element docRoot = doc.getDocumentElement();
for(Node n = sourceRoot; n != null; n=n.getNextSibling()) {
docRoot.appendChild(doc.importNode(n, true));
}
which is based on Joe's another email in 2000, it works. There might be
other better way. I will try more and get back later.
Thanks again.
Stephen
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Maksym Kovalenko wrote:
> Use
> Node doc1OwnedNode = doc.importNode(doc2.getDocumentElement());
> doc.appendChild(doc1OwnedNode);
>
> But read DOM specs first that Joseph Kesselman pointed out.
>
> Lingzhi Zhang wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am experimenting how to append a piece of xml into an existing xml using
> >DOM. My code is like,
> >
> > DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
> > InputSource in = new InputSource(xmlFile);
> > Document doc = parser.parse(in);
> >
> >I got anothe Document doc2 in the same way. The I tried
> >
> >1. doc.appendChild(doc2);
> >2. doc.appendChild(doc2.getDocumentElement());
> >3. doc.getDocumentElement().appendChild(doc2.getDocumentElement());
> >4. aNode.appendChild(doc2); //aNode is a node in doc
> >
> >But none of the above worked, the code always throws the exception:
> >"org.w3c.dom.DOMException: WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: A node is used in a
> >different document than the one that created it."
> >
> >In the api it says,
> >"WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild was created from a different
> >document than the one that created this node. "
> >
> >However, I still don't understand wha this exactly means. What is wrong
> >with the appending in my code?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Stephen
> >
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