JAXP-DOM Node Import Issue

[Balu Sadhasivam]

Hi ,

I tried to parse a XML using JAXP DOM implementations and used getElementsByTagName() to get to a particular Node and

    
Node node = document.getElementsByTagName("FirstTag").item(0);
documentNew = dbuilder.newDocument(); // Created a new document object
documentNew.importNode(node ,true);  // tried to import the node to the new Document

System.out.println("New document Length " + documentNew.getChildNodes().getLength());  // returns 0
 // But the Node has childnodes and values.

But the API has something like this "User data associated to the imported node is not carried over. " , But I dint even get the childNodes. Any body tried this before ? .

Alternatively , is there any way i can persist a particular Node( with node values) to a new Document ? Thanks.

[Paul Clapham]

That's how you do it. I don't see any code where you test the number of children in the source node, so perhaps you are mistaken about the number of children it has.

[Balu Sadhasivam]

That's how you do it. I don't see any code where you test the number of children in the source node, so perhaps you are mistaken about the number of children it has.

Yup, but the documentNew.getChildNodes().item(0) returns null. I will double check it anyways. BTW user data(Node value) are not imported to new document ? because the main requirement i go with this approach is to get the Node value.Thanks Paul.