Replacing an XML element?

[Nick Vargish]

I've been trying to figure out how to do something that seems
relatively simple, but it's just not coming together for me. I'm
hoping someone will deign to give me a little insight here.

The problem: We have XML documents that use a custom table format that
was designed primarily for typesetting documents. It's a column-first
oriented scheme, and now we need a way to convert these table elements
to HTML style row-first tables.

I would like to be able to do something like this:

doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(input)
for table in doc.getElementsByTagName('COLTABLE'):
newtable = coltable_to_rowtable(table)
## this is what I can't figure out
doc.replace(table, newtable)
output.write(doc.toxml('utf-8'))

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious, but haven't been able
to find any examples.

Someone please whack me with a cluestick,

Nick

 

[Max Erickson]

I've been trying to figure out how to do something that seems
relatively simple, but it's just not coming together for me. I'm
hoping someone will deign to give me a little insight here.

The problem: We have XML documents that use a custom table format
that was designed primarily for typesetting documents. It's a
column-first oriented scheme, and now we need a way to convert
these table elements to HTML style row-first tables.

I would like to be able to do something like this:

doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(input)
for table in doc.getElementsByTagName('COLTABLE'):
newtable = coltable_to_rowtable(table)
## this is what I can't figure out
doc.replace(table, newtable)
output.write(doc.toxml('utf-8'))

I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious, but haven't been
able to find any examples.

Someone please whack me with a cluestick,

Nick

table.parentNode.replaceChild(newtable, table)

 

[Nick Vargish]

table.parentNode.replaceChild(newtable, table)

I knew it had to be something simple (but not as simple as I am,
apparently :^).

Thanks much, Max, you've saved the rest of my day.

Nick