Moving Elements Up and Down

[ghost]

Hi,
I am not entirely sure the best way to move an Element up one, or down one.
It would be very convenient to have a specific function to copy the entire contents of an Element (all attributes, and text) and then to move it to any place within the current Document.
I looked at #135, but this seems to be addressing moving to a new document.

This would be useful for copying items, i.e.
myXMLElement=myBaseXMLElement->FirstChildElement("Class1")->FirstChildElement("copyItem");
myOtherXMLElement->CopyElement(myXMLElement, afterMyDestinationElement);
or
myOtherXMLElement->MoveElement(myXMLElement, afterMyDestinationElement); //this deletes tmyXMLElement after copying it.

Is there an existing way to do this? I have tried a few methods, but I have not found something that I can use correctly.

[leethomason]

Copying can be done with ShallowClone(), but that doesn't copy sub-nodes, and certainly doesn't have the rich functionality you are proposing. I think having a DeepClone() would solve many of these sort of use cases (moving elements between trees), and DeepClone() combined with the existing would at least give the functionality you want.

[ghost]

Thanks @leethomason, the DeepClone() might be a nice feature for the future!

[petko]

+1 for DeepClone