Moving Nodes between DOM Documents by Copying a Node from One Parse Tree into Another in Java

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
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import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class Main {

  static public void main(String[] arg) {
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    dbf.setValidating(true);
    dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
    dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);

    Document doc = null;
    try {
      DocumentBuilder builder = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
      InputSource is = new InputSource("personWithDTD.xml");
      doc = builder.parse(is);

      importName(doc, doc);

    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println(e);
    }
  }

  public static void importName(Document doc1,Document doc2) {
    Element root1 = doc1.getDocumentElement();
    Element personInDoc1 = (Element)root1.getFirstChild();

    Node importedPerson = doc2.importNode(personInDoc1,true);

    Element root2 = doc2.getDocumentElement();
    root2.appendChild(importedPerson);
  }
}
<locations>
    <place>
        <name>oldName</name>
        <directions>oldDirection</directions>
    </place>
</locations>
       
   ]]>
</code>
<result><![CDATA[    
  <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<locations>
    <place>
        <name>
            oldName
        </name>
        <directions>
            oldDirection
        </directions>
    </place>
    <place>
        <name>
            oldName
        </name>
        <directions>
            oldDirection
        </directions>
    </place>
</locations>