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  1. Java
  2. XML
  3. DOM Edit

Insert the new element where the middle node used to be

      
import java.io.File;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {

    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    factory.setValidating(true);

    factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);

    Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("filename"));

    Element element = doc.getDocumentElement();

    Text text1 = (Text) element.getFirstChild();
    String string = text1.getData();
    String word = "some";
    Text text2 = text1.splitText(string.indexOf(word));

    Element newElement = doc.createElement("b");
    newElement.appendChild(text2);

    element.insertBefore(newElement, text2);
  }
}








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