Re: Creating a Document from a Node

From:

Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:01:08 +0100

Message-ID:

<Pine.LNX.4.64.0807281356100.11543@urchin.earth.li>

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, pwaring@gmail.com wrote:

I'm trying to use JTidy (latest release version, I can't use the svn
version) to pretty print a Node (org.w3c.dom.Node). However, the only
method for printing nodes in org.w3c.tidy.Tidy is:

public void pprint(org.w3c.dom.Document doc, java.io.OutputStream out)

So I need to create a Document containing only one node so that I can
pass it as an argument to this method Does anyone know how I can do
this? I've tried a simple cast (which doesn't work),

What did the actual class of the Node turn out to be?

and creating an empty document then adding a node to it with the
following code:

try
{
content.appendChild(currentDiv);
}
catch ( DOMException dome )
{
System.out.println("Error: " + dome.getMessage());
}

However, this throws an exception with the message: "Error: newChild
cannot be a child of this node". Does anyone know how/if I can get round
this?

Try Document.adoptNode or importNode, according to whether you want to
remove the Node from the original Document or not.

It seems like an awful lot of hassle just to print a Node.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the W3C DOM!

tom

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