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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 15:15:05 -0600 (CST)
From: Kevin Olson <kevolson@visi.com>
To: "'general@xml.apache.org'" <general@xml.apache.org>
Subject: RE: Question about removeChild
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Many thanks Brian, that clears it up.

Kevin

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Brian Dupras wrote:

> > Am I missing something in the DOM spec or the Xerces API?
> 
> Yes = NodeLists are live.  That means if you created a NodeList of children
> of a node, if you delete a child, it gets removed from the NodeList, too.  
> 
> Original NodeList
> child 0 : <one/>
> child 1 : <two/>
> child 2 : <three/>
> 
> Same NodeList after <parent/>.removeChild(<one/>):
> 
> child 0 : <two/>
> child 1 : <three/>
> 
> 
> 
> One way to work around this is to iteraet backward over the nodelist.  If
> you remove the last Node, the other nodes don't change place like if you
> delete the first.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Olson [mailto:kevolson@visi.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:55 PM
> > To: general@xml.apache.org
> > Subject: Question about removeChild
> > 
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Using Xerces 1.0.1 and given the following doc...
> > 
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <root>
> >   <one/>
> >   <two/>
> >   <three/>
> > </root>
> > 
> > I am iterating through a NodeList trying to delete the <one/> 
> > element and
> > the <two/> element.  I reach the <one/> element and do the following
> > (where 'n' is the current node in the NodeList).
> >  
> > Node parent = n.getParentNode();
> > parent.removeChild(n);
> > 
> > And the <one/> node gets blasted like I would expect.  I 
> > would also expect
> > to be able to delete the <two/> element in the next iteration of the
> > NodeList.  What happens, however, is that the next node in 
> > the list is the
> > <three/> node.
> > 
> > It works if I try to delete the <one/> and <three/> node.  
> > Just not two
> > consecutive nodes with the same parent.  I can show more of 
> > the code if
> > that would help.
> > 
> > Am I missing something in the DOM spec or the Xerces API?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> > 
> > 
> > 
>