Re: How to convert from org.apache.xmlbeans.xmlobject to org.w3c.dom.Document?

Hi Gugle!

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:03 +0530, first last wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using XMLBeans to create an XML object which is of
> type org.apache.xmlbeans.xmlobject. But I need to pass this XML
> content to an API which expects an XML of type - org.w3c.dom.Document.
> Does XMLBeans provide a direct way of converting from xmlobject to
> dom.Document? I noticed that we can go from XmlObject to org.w3c.dom
> Node Object using XmlObject.newDomNode(), but not sure how to get a
> dom.Document object from XMLobject. Can someone let me know if this is
> possible?

My understanding is that if you use the XmlObject that is the equivalent
of the document interface, then yourXmlObject.getDomNode() should return
the correct Dom Node and this used tocast to a org.w3c.dom.Document...

>From the api...

> public Node getDomNode()
> 
> 
> Returns a W3C DOM Node containing the XML represented by this source.
> This is a live DOM node, not a copy. Any changes made through this
> node are immediately reflected in the document associated with this
> token source. Depending on the kind of token this XmlTokenSource
> represents, an appropriate node will be returned. 

Haven't tried this any time recently. Hope my understanding is good.
Regards
Jeff
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