Append an xml document to an xml node in C#?

Question

How can I append an XML document to an xml node in c#?

Answer 1

Yes:

XmlNode imported = targetNode.OwnerDocument.ImportNode(otherDocument.DocumentElement, true);
targetNode.AppendChild(imported);

I think this creates a clone of your document though.

Answer 2

An XmlDocument is basically an XmlNode, so you can append it just like you would do for any other XmlNode. However, the difference arises from the fact that this XmlNode does not belong to the target document, therefore you will need to use the ImportNode method and then perform the append.

// xImportDoc is the XmlDocument to be imported.
// xTargetNode is the XmlNode into which the import is to be done.

XmlNode xChildNode = xSrcNode.ImportNode(xImportDoc, true);
xTargetNode.AppendChild(xChildNode);

Answer 3

Perhaps like this:

XmlNode node = ......  // belongs to targetDoc (XmlDocument)

node.AppendChild(targetDoc.ImportNode(xmlDoc.DocumentElement));

Marc