Convert org.w3c.dom.Node into Document

java domdocument xmlnode
Svish picture Svish · Nov 8, 2012 · Viewed 24.8k times · Source

I have a Node from one Document. I want to take that Node and turn it into the root node of a new Document.

Only way I can think of is the following:

Node node = someChildNodeFromDifferentDocument;

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);

DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();

Document newDocument = builder.newDocument();
newDocument.importNode(node);
newDocument.appendChild(node);

This works, but I feel it is rather annoyingly verbose. Is there a less verbose/more direct way I'm not seeing, or do I just have to do it this way?

Answer

Mark Butler picture Mark Butler · Jan 14, 2013

The code did not work for me - but with some changes from this related question I could get it to work as follows:

Node node = someChildNodeFromDifferentDocument;
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document newDocument = builder.newDocument();
Node importedNode = newDocument.importNode(node, true);
newDocument.appendChild(importedNode);

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