Here you can find the source of copyNode(Document new_doc, Node node)
public final static Node copyNode(Document new_doc, Node node)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w ww .ja v a 2 s.co m * eXist Open Source Native XML Database * Copyright (C) 2001-2007 The eXist Project * http://exist-db.org * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation * Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * $Id$ */ import org.w3c.dom.Attr; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.w3c.dom.Text; public class Main { public final static Node copyNode(Document new_doc, Node node) { Node new_node; switch (node.getNodeType()) { case Node.ELEMENT_NODE: new_node = new_doc.createElementNS(node.getNamespaceURI(), node.getNodeName()); copyChildren(new_doc, node, new_node); return new_node; case Node.TEXT_NODE: new_node = new_doc.createTextNode(((Text) node).getData()); return new_node; case Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE: new_node = new_doc.createAttributeNS(node.getNamespaceURI(), node.getNodeName()); ((Attr) new_node).setValue(((Attr) node).getValue()); return new_node; default: // TODO : error ? -pb return null; } } public final static void copyChildren(Document new_doc, Node node, Node new_node) { final NodeList children = node.getChildNodes(); Node new_child; for (int i = 0; i < children.getLength(); i++) { final Node child = children.item(i); if (child == null) { continue; } switch (child.getNodeType()) { case Node.ELEMENT_NODE: { new_child = copyNode(new_doc, child); new_node.appendChild(new_child); break; } case Node.ATTRIBUTE_NODE: { new_child = copyNode(new_doc, child); ((Element) new_node).setAttributeNode((Attr) new_child); break; } case Node.TEXT_NODE: { new_child = copyNode(new_doc, child); new_node.appendChild(new_child); break; } // TODO : error for any other one -pb } } } }