Hi. New to xml and this forum.. have the Beginning XML book and have been trying to figure out the DOM. I can create a new xml object and use the append child to add an element.

Is there a way to load an existing XML file and then insert an element to it?

for example...

Load an XML from a file...

<custorders>
   <order id="001"/>
</custorders>

submit a form and change the XML file

<custorders>
   <order id="001"/>
   <order id="002"/>
</custorders>

This file would be local on the client C: drive.

Thanks for any help.

Sure, you would create a new element of type order, add the attribute, and then append it to the root. Haven't done it in JavaScript so I can't help you further.

Sorry about that,

Brian

Brian,

That is what I've been trying to do. If I create a new DOM object, I can append to it. But if I create the DOM object and then load an existing XML into it, the appendChild method doesn't work.

I've been using the example directly from the Wrox Beginning XML book...but that example is done an a new XML object, and not one that has been loaded from an existing file.

The appendChild method works regardless of whether the DOM is newly created or loaded from a file. I don't have the book, so show us the code that doesn't work.

Pgtips and Brian,
Thanks for the quick help...although the book seemed to indicate that the append worked with a loaded file, the example didn't show that so I wasn't 100% sure.
Anyway, with your help I figured out my problem. With a new object, the appendedChild method was creating the root element. With the loaded file, I needed to create a node object that held the parentnode <custorders>, and then I was able to append the <order> element to the the parent.
Thanks!