Re: xml.dom.minidom weirdness: bug?

En Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:51:14 -0300, JYA <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

What I'm doing, is read an xml file, create another dom object and copy the element from one to the other.

At no time do I ever modify the original dom object, yet it gets modified.

for y in x.getElementsByTagName('display-name'):
elem.appendChild(y)
tv_xml.appendChild(elem)

You'll note that at no time do I modify the content of docxml, yet it gets modified.

The weirdness disappear if I change the line
channellist = docxml.getElementsByTagName('channel')
to
channellist = copy.deepcopy(docxml.getElementsByTagName('channel'))

However, my understanding is that it shouldn't be necessary.

I think that any element can have only a single parent. If you get an element from one document and insert it onto another document, it gets removed from the first.

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Gabriel Genellina

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