User Guide

XMLNode 741
Parameters
newChild:XMLNode - An XMLNode that represents the node to be moved from its current
location to the child list of the
my_xml object.
Example
This example does the following things in the order shown:
■ Creates two empty XML documents, doc1 and doc2.
■ Creates a new node using the createElement() method, and appends it, using the
appendChild() method, to the XML document named doc1.
■ Shows how to move a node using the appendChild() method, by moving the root node
from
doc1 to doc2.
■ Clones the root node from doc2 and appends it to doc1.
■ Creates a new node and appends it to the root node of the XML document doc1.
var doc1:XML = new XML();
var doc2:XML = new XML();
// create a root node and add it to doc1
var rootnode:XMLNode = doc1.createElement("root");
doc1.appendChild(rootnode);
trace ("doc1: " + doc1); // output: doc1: <root />
trace ("doc2: " + doc2); // output: doc2:
// move the root node to doc2
doc2.appendChild(rootnode);
trace ("doc1: " + doc1); // output: doc1:
trace ("doc2: " + doc2); // output: doc2: <root />
// clone the root node and append it to doc1
var clone:XMLNode = doc2.firstChild.cloneNode(true);
doc1.appendChild(clone);
trace ("doc1: " + doc1); // output: doc1: <root />
trace ("doc2: " + doc2); // output: doc2: <root />
// create a new node to append to root node (named clone) of doc1
var newNode:XMLNode = doc1.createElement("newbie");
clone.appendChild(newNode);
trace ("doc1: " + doc1); // output: doc1: <root><newbie /></root>