"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@h...> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <dave5398@b...> wrote in message
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> > Am I missing something or is there an easy way to do this.  Suppose I
have
> > loaded my XML string into a DOMDocument .  I have a node whose XML I
want to
> > replace with new specified XML. This is the equivalent of
MyDOMElement.XML =
> > sNewXML but I can't find a built in way to do this since the node.XML
> > property is read only - I must have missed something as the only way I
have
> > found is really a long way round. Can somebody tell me the easy way
please.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> There's no real quick way. You can use the replaceChild method or just
delete
> the node and append a new one.
>
> --
>
> Joe (MVP - XML)
>
>
Hi Joe,

Thanks.  I thought as much.  It's really as bad as I suspected.  The next
version should really make the XML property writeable as well.  In fact, a
lot of the XML stuff is so (typically MS) over-engineered that I've had to
code a load of stuff in C++ to actually DO anything - eg, given an XML
string, how do you get a given tag's attribute?  Big job, whereas if you
just search for it direct, it's actually simple.

For this job, if I've got a new XML string I want to put into a node I have
to create a new DOMDocument, load the XML then do a load of recursive calls
to traverse the whole structure creating corresponding nodes in my original
DOMDocument.  What a pain!!!  So much simpler to put Node.XML=newXML - no?
Or can you think of anything neater?

Dave

Regards,

Davd