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Deleting the children from node - xml

 
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Hi

I want to remove total list of children from the node selected.


Here is the xml which I use,




When selecting the diagram id 'abc', all the children inside the <Diagram> </Diagram> tag must be deleted, and also the Diagram tag.

Here the code i used,


 
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You have this list: (0=child1, 1=child2, 2=child3). The first time through the loop you delete entry number 0, so now you have (0=child2, 1=child3). Then you delete entry number 1, so now you have (0=child2). Finally you delete entry number 2, which doesn't exist, so you still have (0=child2).

Either you should delete the entries in reverse order (2, then 1, then 0) or you should delete entry number 0 every time through the loop.

This is a classic gotcha of programming languages, nothing to do with XML at all, and people have been getting tricked by it for over 40 years now. You aren't the first.
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