I need help with this problem.

I have two example XML documents

XML 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Service_Request_1.0 type="VALIDATION" job_identifier="01010">
        <Groups>
        </Groups>
</Service_Request_1.0>

XML 2

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<RemoveResponse>
        <ModuleResponse>
                <message>something</message>
        </ModuleResponse>
        <ModuleResponse>
                <message>some other thing</message>
        </ModuleResponse>
</RemoveResponse>



My task is to put XML2 <ModuleResponse> children into the <Groups> of the XML 1.

This is the code that I am trying to use:

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import org.jdom.xpath.XPath;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.jdom.*;
import java.io.*;
import org.jdom.output.Format;
import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;

public class JDOMExample {
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {

    SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
    String str = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><Service_Request_1.0 type=\"VALIDATION\" job_identifier=\"01010\"><Groups></Groups></Service_Request_1.0>";
    String strs = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><RemoveResponse><ModuleResponse><message>some thing</message></ModuleResponse><ModuleResponse><message>some other thing</message></ModuleResponse></RemoveResponse>";
    try {

      Document maindoc = builder.build(new InputSource(new StringReader(str)));
      Document doc = builder.build(new InputSource(new StringReader(strs)));
      Element rootElement = doc.getRootElement();
                        maindoc.getRootElement().getChild("Groups").addCon tent((Element)(doc.getRootElement().getChild("Modu leResponse").clone()));
    Format format = Format.getPrettyFormat();
                        XMLOutputter serializer = new XMLOutputter(format);
                        String servicereply = serializer.outputString(maindoc);
                        System.out.println("Response:"+servicereply);
    }

    catch (JDOMException e) {
      System.out.println("Document is not well-formed.");
      System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
    catch (IOException e) {
      System.out.println("Could not check Document");
      System.out.println(" because " + e.getMessage());
    }

  }

}



When I try to do the clone I only get the first <ModuleResponse>. Is there a way for me to copy all children so that I will have XML like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Service_Request_1.0 type="VALIDATION" job_identifier="01010">
        <Groups>

        <ModuleResponse>
                <message>something</message>
        </ModuleResponse>
        <ModuleResponse>
                <message>some other thing</message>
        </ModuleResponse>

        </Groups>
</Service_Request_1.0>



Please help me on this issue. Thanks in anticipation

Never Mind :-) .. Got it working. Used getChildren().

There's a list specially for JDOM at www.jdom.org, I suggest you ask there.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference