Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
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A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- JavaScript object: XML
- JavaScript method: XML.addAttribute()
- JavaScript method: XML.addElement()
- JavaScript method: XML.appendNode()
- JavaScript method: XML.createNode()
- JavaScript method: XML.getAttributeNode()
- JavaScript method: XML.getAttributeValue()
- JavaScript method: XML.getDocumentElement()
- JavaScript method: XML.getFirstAttribute()
- JavaScript method: XML.getFirstChildElement()
- JavaScript method: XML.getName()
- JavaScript method: XML.getNextAttribute()
- JavaScript method: XML.getNextSiblingElement()
- JavaScript method: XML.getNodeName()
- JavaScript method: XML.getNodeType()
- JavaScript method: XML.getNodeValue()
- JavaScript method: XML.getParentNode()
- JavaScript method: XML.getPrefix()
- JavaScript method: XML.getQualifiedName()
- JavaScript method: XML.getText()
- JavaScript method: XML.getValue()
- JavaScript method: XML.importNode()
- JavaScript method: XML.isDocumentElement()
- JavaScript method: XML.removeAttribute()
- JavaScript method: XML.setAttributeValue()
- JavaScript method: XML.setContent()
- JavaScript method: XML.setNodeValue()
- JavaScript method: XML.setText()
- JavaScript method: XML.setValue()
- JavaScript method: XML.toXMLString()
- JavaScript method: XMLDoc.insertBefore()
JavaScript method: XML.importNode()
This method copies an XML node from one XML document to another. It requires two existing XML objects with document elements: one is the source XML object and the other is the target XML document. This method does not update either the source or the target XML object. Instead, you must use the appendNode method to add the imported node into the target XML document.
Syntax
XML.importNode( name );
Arguments
The following arguments are valid for this method:
Argument | Data type | Description |
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name
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String | This argument specifies the XML node name you want to copy from the source XML object. The string argument must contain characters valid for XML (for example, the string cannot include the characters < or > except as XML entities such as < and >). |
Return values
An XML object or null
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The method returns an XML object containing the copied node or returns null
if the method cannot import a copy of the node.
Example
This example imports an XML node from one XML object to another.
This example requires the following sample data:
- A local XML file (for example, C:\test.xml which contains
<document><parent1><child1 attribute1="a" /><child2 /></parent1><parent2><child3 /><child4 /></parent2></document>
) - An XML object (for example, an object containing
<document> </document>
)
var XMLFile = new XML(); var XMLObject = new XML(); var TargetNode; function findTargetElement( node, targetElem ) { var topNodeName = node.getNodeName(); while (node != null && node.getNodeName() != targetElem ) { var childNode = node.getFirstChildElement(); if (childNode == null) { childNode = node.getNextSiblingElement(); while (childNode == null) { node = node.getParentNode(); if ( node == null || topNodeName == node.getNodeName() ) { return null; } childNode = node.getNextSiblingElement(); } node = childNode; } else { node = childNode; } } return node; } /* Create a function to print the target element and search results */ function printFindResults( target, searchResult ) { if ( searchResult != null ) { var elementName = searchResult.getNodeName(); print( "Found element " + elementName + " in: \n" + searchResult + "\n" ); return searchResult } else { print( "Cannot find " + target ); return null } } function importNewNode( xmlSource, xmlTarget, node ) { print( "The XML source object is:\n" + xmlSource ); print( "The target element we are looking for is: " + node ); var FoundNode = findTargetElement( xmlSource, node ); printFindResults( node, FoundNode ); print( "The XML target object is:\n" + xmlTarget ); print( "Importing " + FoundNode + " into XML target object..." ); var NewNode = xmlTarget.importNode( FoundNode ); print( "The XML target object remains unchanged: " + xmlTarget ); print( "Appending " + FoundNode + " into XML target object..."); var appendedNode = xmlTarget.appendNode( NewNode ); print( "The new XML target object is: " + xmlTarget ); } XMLFile = XMLFile.setContent( "C:\\test.xml", true ); XMLObject = XMLObject.setContent( "<document> </document>" ); TargetNode = "parent1"; importNewNode( XMLFile, XMLObject, TargetNode );