Moving nodes from one XmlDocument to another

Author: Rob Lang

URL: http://www.maison-de-stuff.net/rob/

// Moving nodes from one XmlDocument to another

/*
  In .NET has some powerful tools to deal with Xml. All Xml nodes
  need to be created in the context of a XmlDocument object. If you need
  to move the nodes from one Xml Document to another, it's not obvious that
  you can just copy the nodes from one XmlDocument to another, after all Xml
  is just text isn't it.

  Here's how to move all the nodes from one Xml Document to another:
*/

// Dont forget this one:
using System.Xml;

// First, get some documents together
XmlDocument DocumentSource = new XmlDocument();
XmlDocument DocumentDestination = new XmlDocument();

// Load the documents with some nodes
DocumentSource.LoadXml("");
DocumentDestination.LoadXml("");

// Now to do the conversion
XmlNode tempNode = DocumentDestination.ImportNode( DocumentSource.FirstChild )

// Now insert the fragment into the document
DocumentDestination.FirsChild.AppendChild(tempNode);