[Zope-dev] XML Document appendChild questions

[Paul Prescod]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
> def appendChild(self, newChild):
>         """
>         Adds the node newChild to the end of the list of children of
> this node.
>         If the newChild is already in the tree, it is first removed.
>         """
> 
> But in this case 'newChild' is in *another* tree and it is removed as
> well. Is this intentionally? 

I don't think that the standard DOM API even has a provision for moving
nodes from one document to another.

The more important point is that a single element cannot have two parents.
You should clone it.

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