How to copy node from one XML file to another file

[John R]

I am new to XML. I hope you guys can help me figuring out this problem. I am trying to figure out how to do the following :
See the following small XML file.( I call it one.xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<addressbook>
<friends>
<friend name="xyz">
<address>
<apt>A-123</apt>
<street>Burger St.</street>
<city>San Carlos</city>
<state>CA</state>
<zip>92042</zip>
</address>
</friend>
<friend name="abc">
<address>
<apt>111</apt>
<street>Bagel St.</street>
<city>San Diego</city>
<state>CA</state>
<zip>92049</zip>
</address>
<phone>
<cell>111-222-3333</cell>
<cell>111-222-4444</cell>
</phone>
</friend>
</friends>
</addressbook>
See the following small XML file.( I call it two.xml)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<addressbook>
<friends>
<friend name="xyz">
<address>
<apt>A-123</apt>
<street>Burger St.</street>
<city>San Carlos</city>
<state>CA</state>
<zip>92042</zip>
</address>
</friend>
<friend name="abc">
<address>
<apt>111</apt>
<street>Bagel St.</street>
<city>San Diego</city>
<state>CA</state>
<zip>92049</zip>
</address>
</friend>
</friends>
</addressbook>

As you can see, one.xml has phone element in one of the friend's details but in the two.xml, it is not there. What I want to do is write a program which will copy the phone node and subnodes in one.xml to their corresponding location in two.xml.
Any ideas ? or example programs ?
Thanks.

[Dan Drillich]

The following should help -
https://coderanch.com/t/124039/XML/importNode-cannot-resolve-symbol
Cheers,
Dan

[mars76]

Hi,
You can do that in two ways..
1) Read the First XML File using SAX Api and get the Phone Number details and create a DOM Tree on the second XML File and insert the Node <phone> in the appropriate location..
2) Using JAXB is the second option..

Unmarshall the First and second XML Files and ise the get() method to fetch the Phone Number from the First XML and set the Phone Number and Marshall the root Object..
For this to work you need to define the <phone> as an optional element in your second XML 's DTD..
Hope this helps..

-Sateesh