Re: [xml] using xmlDocSetRootElement to move nodes between documents

[Martijn Faassen <faassen infrae com>]

Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> On 27/07/04 19:11, Martijn Faassen wrote:
[snip]
> > is moving nodes between documents in general not supported this way?
>
>
> No, it isn't. You must call xmlUnlinkNode to get the node out of the 
> first document. Then you can insert it into the new document. And take a 
> good care about namespaces, should either document use them.

Unless I'm missing something, this cannot be it, as 
xmlDocSetRootElement() calls xmlUnlinkNode on the node in any case:

xmlNodePtr
xmlDocSetRootElement(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlNodePtr root) {
    xmlNodePtr old = NULL;

    if (doc == NULL) return(NULL);
    if (root == NULL)
        return(NULL);
    xmlUnlinkNode(root);
    ....

I also tried using xmlSetTreeDoc, but that doesn't help either (and it's 
hard to say what to call it in the original document, as I'm moving the 
document element).

Regards,

Martijn