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Re: cloneNode() and insert into another document

From: Terje Norderhaug <terje@in-progress.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:02:30 -0800
Message-Id: <b4c6af0b00021004c81a@[216.240.161.91]>
To: www-dom@w3.org 
At 8:24 PM 2/8/00, Robert Rangel wrote:
>I am trying to copy a node from one document and insert it into a separate
>document tree. I tried to cloneNode(true) it and insertBefore() into the
>new document, but a DOMException with a code of "WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERROR" is
>raised. Why is this a limitation, and is there an easy perform this
>operation with standard DOM methods?
>
>I am using IBM's xml4j java parser (XERCES).

Use import-node from DOM2.

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