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Merging two XML documents

I am using the xerces DOMParser with Java. I want to be able to take the top level node from one document
and append or insert it into a Node on a second, different Document. When I try to simply call appendChild I get an exception that says "Wrong Document". Is there a simply way of doing this?

kamaljeets

can u give the stack trace of the exception, then it will be easy to help.
-kjs

c095276

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org.w3c.dom.DOMException: DOM005 Wrong document
at org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode.internalInsertBefore(ParentNode.java:393)
at org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode.insertBefore(ParentNode.java:325)
at org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl.appendChild(NodeImpl.java:226)
at com.wachovia.cmg.ciwt.common.xml.XMLManager.appendNode(XMLManager.java:187)
at com.wachovia.cmg.ciwt.workflow.upes.UPESManager.createProcessContainerFromXML(UPESManager.java:239)
at com.wachovia.cmg.ciwt.workflow.upes.UPESMain.main(UPESMain.java:48)
Exception in thread "main"

c095276

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Here is a code snippet I have removed all the unnecessary stuff such as exception handling

// missing navigate parent document to correct node set to parentNode

InputSource xmlSource = new InputSource(new StringReader(xmlStr));

DOMParser strParser = new DOMParser();

Document newXMLDoc = strParser.parse(xmlSource);

Node nodeToBeInserted = newXMLDoc.getFirstChild();

parentNode.appendChild( nodeToBeInserted);

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c095276

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What is the type of doc1? I have an object of type org.w3c.dom.Document and I do not have an importNode fucntion.

girionis

> I have an object of type org.w3c.dom.Document and I do not have an importNode
fucntion.

Are you sure you are using the latest Java XML APIs?

P.S. I think the moderators should add a "quote" function for replies. It would be quite handy.

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