Thanks, Jake. However, I got a HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR when I tried this
way. I will look at it.
I found another question. Now we could use importNode() to copy a node of
subtree from one document to another. However, this method only comes with
the Document interface which refers to the root of a document. If i want
to insert a node/subtree to any node in the DOM tree, how to do that? The
Node interface doesn't have this method to support node copy.
Btw, is there any way to change the owner of the document?
Stephen
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> That shouldn't be necessary. Try this...
>
> Node doc1OwnedNode = doc.importNode(doc2.getDocumentElement(), true);
> doc.appendChild(doc1OwnedNode);
>
> Try that. It should work fine. BTW, you aren't importing a "document
> node". You are importing an Element node and all of its children. The
> fact that this happens to be the root node of the document is
> inconsequential. You would be right if the code was
> doc.importNode(doc2). That wouldn't work.
>
> Jake
>
> At 02:26 PM 11/7/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >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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