document as child in DOM ??

[Uche Ogbuji]

Juliano Freitas <jubafre at atlas.ucpel.tche.br> wrote in message news:<mailman.5827.1099417246.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> I have a document as a string:
> 
> xmltext = """<?xml version='1.0'?>
> <root>
> 	<parara>text</parara>
> </root>"""
> 
> then i transform the string into a document with fromString method.
> 
> i want tu put this "xmltext" as a child to another document called
> "swdb"?
> how can i do this??
> 
> <swdb>
>   <root>
> 	<parara>text</parara>
>   </root>
> ...
> </swdb>
> 
> i tryed the importNode and appendNode, but i dont if i'm doing right!

I think you want something like the following (pseudocode):

1) parse "root" document into root_dom
2) new_docelem = root_dom.createElementNS(None, 'swdb')
3) old_docelem = root_dom.documentElement
4) root_dom.documentElement = new_docelem
5) new_docelem.appendChild(old_docelem)

There.  Now doesn't DOM just completely suck?  :-)

If this doesn't work, please post specific error messages or
unexpected results so we can hekp you better.

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