relpacing a node

[shankar vembu]

Hi,
I am trying to replace an element node with a text node in my xml file.
from Source xml:

 
<message><err/>/message>
 

to result xml

<message>some error message/message>
  

this is the code i wrote

  
Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
Element err =(Element) root.getElementsByTagName("err").item(0);        
Text msg = doc.createTextNode("some error message");        
err.getParentNode().replaceChild(err, msg);

But i get DOMException with message DOM008 not found.
I thought that i cannot replace an element with text. i tried to replace with another element instead of text but same exception again.
Could anyone tell me whats wrong with my code.
thankyou,
shankar.

[Lasse Koskela]

Shankar, please delete duplicate posts. I deleted the other one for you this time...

[Elizabeth Lester]

Hi Shankar,
Text nodes need to be appended to Element nodes. So if you wanted to replace your <err/> tag with text, you want to first remove it, then append the new text node you create to the message tag.
Hope that helps!
--liz