Inside XML

Modifying XML Documents

As you saw earlier in Table 11.4, the Node interface contains a number of methods for modifying documents by adding or removing nodes. These methods include appendChild, insertBefore, removeChild, replaceChild, and so on. You can use these methods to modify XML documents on the fly.

If you do modify a document, however, you still have to write it out. (In Chapter 7, we couldn't do that using JavaScript in a browser, so I sent the whole document to an ASP script that echoed it back to be displayed in the browser.) The XML for Java packages do support an interface named Serializer that you can use to serialize (store) documents. However, that interface is not included in the standard JAR files that we've already downloaded—in ...