- From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:57:37 -0500
- cc: www-dom@w3.org
FAQ PROPOSAL, since it comes up on a regular basis in every XML-related discussion I monitor... Nodes may not be moved directly from one Document to another. To accomplish this task, you must create new nodes in the target document, using the data from the source document. It's not hard to write a simple tree-walker to do this, but it's a nuisance. DOM Level 2 will add the importNode() method to do that work for you. Some DOMs (eg IBM's) already include a prototype of that function. But if you want a portable solution that will work with DOM Level 1, you have to provide your own routine for the purpose. A better alternative, in many cases, is not to create a second Document at all. If you can pass your main Document into whatever routine is generating the second tree, and use its factories, you'll be able to insert those nodes directly. For future reference: DOM Level 3 is looking at the general issue of loading/storing DOMs, and I would expect that the question of loading additional data into an existing document is one of the use cases they've considered. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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