Removing a node??

Hi Guys,

Quick question?

How does one remove a node from a xmlc document?
I thought is was a simple mater of setting it to null...?
But that doesn't seem to work...

E.g.

  public void processButtonNodes(HTMLObject xmlcPage, String pageEvent) {
    this.reportButton = (HTMLButtonElement)
xmlcPage.getElementById("reportPage");

    if (this.removeReportButton == true) {
      if (this.reportButton != null) {
        this.reportButton = null;  // Doesn't seemt to work?
        System.out.println("Setting reportButton to null.");
      } else {
        System.out.println("Node not found!!");
      }
    }

    super.processButtonNodes(xmlcPage, pageEvent);
  }


Can someone clue me in?

Thanx
KD