xdmp.nodeInsertChild

xdmp.nodeinsertchildxdmpnodeinsertchild

/apidoc/8.0/xdmp:node-insert-child.xml

Adds a new last child to a node. Only element nodes and document nodes can have children. Element nodes cannot have document node children. Document nodes cannot have multiple roots. On-the-fly constructed nodes cannot be updated. The parameters must specify individual nodes and not node sets.

The parent node which will have a new child node.

parent

Node

The new child node to be inserted.

new

Node

null

// create a document 

declareUpdate();
xdmp.documentInsert("/example.xml",
    xdmp.unquote('<a/>').next().value);

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// insert a child of a 

declareUpdate();
xdmp.nodeInsertChild(cts.doc("/example.xml").xpath("/a"),
    xdmp.unquote('<b>bbb</b>').next().value.root);

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// look at the new document 

cts.doc("/example.xml");
 =>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a><b>bbb</b></a>

// create a document 

declareUpdate();
xdmp.documentInsert("/example.xml",
    xdmp.unquote('<a/>').next().value);

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// insert an attribute as child of a 

declareUpdate();
var n = new NodeBuilder();
node = n.addAttribute("b", "bbb").toNode();
xdmp.nodeInsertChild(cts.doc("/example.xml").xpath("/a"), node);

// look at the new document 

cts.doc("/example.xml");
 =>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a b="bbb"/>