B*tch of a MSXML!

[SiJP]

I have the following xml in a DOM object:

<root>
<data>
<foo>blarg</foo>
</data>
</root>

I also have this xml in another DOM object.

<somethingelse>
<foo>blarg</foo>
</somethingelse>

The challenge is to:

1) Create a new node after the <data> node called <moredata>
2) Insert the xml from the second dom object, into this node..

So the final output should be:

<root>
<data>
<foo>blarg</foo>
<moredata>
<somethingelse>
<foo>blarg</foo>
</somethingelse>
</moredata>
</data>
</root>

I have tried along the lines of:

set objNodeNew = objXML.createElement("moredata")
Set objNode = objXML.selectSingleNode("//data")
objNode.parentNode.appendChild objNodeNew

but.. I'm coding rubbish..!

Any help would be great

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[SiJP]

Ok.. need to calm down before I post in the future.
Sorry for any offence the topic caused.

I have figured this out by:

1) Set objNodeNew = objXML.createNode(NODE_ELEMENT, "moredata", "")
2) objNodeNew.Text = DomObj2.XML
3) Set objNode = objXML.selectSingleNode("//data")
4) objNode.parentNode.appendChild objNodeNew



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[chiph]

Because the two document fragments have different DomDocument parents, you can't just copy the object references over (as you've discovered). You have to use the appendChild method, which resets the parent property of the nodes.

Chip H.


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[SiJP]

Thanks Chip. I'm actually finding that 2) objNodeNew.Text = DomObj2.XML doesn't do what I thought it did. Instead, I get '&gt's all over the shop.

Have to find another way round this now!

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[SiJP]

Ok, this is how I finally did it:

Dim domObj1 As MSXML2.DOMDocument
Dim domObj2 As MSXML2.DOMDocument
Dim docFrag As IXMLDOMDocumentFragment
Dim domNode As IXMLDOMNode

...

'Create a document fragment for the temp object
Set docFrag = domObj1.createDocumentFragment
docFrag.appendChild domObj2.firstChild.cloneNode(True)
                    
'Append XML to the relevant node
Set domNode = domObj1.selectSingleNode("//data")
domNode.parentNode.appendChild docFrag

Si

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