[XML-SIG] copy node to new dom

[Hannu Krosing]

Mike Hostetler wrote:
> 
> On Thu, October 25, 2001 at 09:47:44AM -0700, Michael Mell wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to use xml.dom.minidom to parse a file, extract the document
> > element and then duplicate that element in a second dom. Ideally, these
> > four lines would do the job:
> >  srcDom  = xml.dom.minidom.parse(f1)
> >  destDom  = xml.dom.minidom.parse(f2)
> >  srcElement = srcDom.getElementsByTagName('myElement')[0]
> >
> >  destDom.documentElement.appendChild(srcElement)
> 
> I used the Sax reader from PyXML and just did:
>    destDom.importNode(srcElement,deep=1)  # copies all child nodes as well
>    destDom.documentElement.appendChild(srcElement)
> 
> However, minidom doesn't have an 'importNode" method.  I've found minidom
> is not up to the task when doing advanced things (and taking part of a
> DOM tree and putting it into another DOM tree *is* advanced).  I hate to
> sound elitest, but change to PyXML -- it will make things easier.

It _would_ probably make things easier if it were documented ;)

I've just spent a few hours searching for documentation and the only
more or 
less complete doc's I found were for minidom in standard python docs.

The docs that come with PyXML had just placeholders for most things.

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Hannu