SuiteScript > XML > Sample in Replacing Child Nodes Using replaceChild

The replaceChild method replaces a child node with another. This method has two required parameters. The first is the new node and the second is the child node that will be replaced.

Sample script:

//declare a variable that will hold the XML in the form of a string

var xmlStringVar = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<bookstore>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<book category="cooking">';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<year>2005</year>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<price>30.00</price>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<title lang="en">French Today</title>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<year>2005</year>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '<price>30.00</price>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '</book>';

xmlStringVar = xmlStringVar + '</bookstore>';

 

//convert the string data into XML using nlapiStringToXML

var xmlData = nlapiStringToXML(xmlStringVar);

 

//declare a variable that will hold the xpath

path = "/bookstore/book/title";

 

//create a new book node

var newBookNode = xmlData.createElement("book");

var newTitleNode = xmlData.createElement("title");

var newTitleNodeValue = xmlData.createTextNode("German Delight");

var newAuthorNode = xmlData.createElement("author");

var newAuthorNodeValue = xmlData.createTextNode("Jackson Gibbs");

var newYearNode = xmlData.createElement("year");

var newYearNodeValue = xmlData.createTextNode("2002");

var newPriceNode = xmlData.createElement("price");

var newPriceNodeValue = xmlData.createTextNode("50.00");

newTitleNode.appendChild(newTitleNodeValue);

newAuthorNode.appendChild(newAuthorNodeValue);

newYearNode.appendChild(newYearNodeValue);

newPriceNode.appendChild(newPriceNodeValue);

newBookNode.appendChild(newTitleNode);

newBookNode.appendChild(newAuthorNode);

newBookNode.appendChild(newYearNode);

newBookNode.appendChild(newPriceNode);

 

//set the node that will be replaced

var existingBookPath = "/bookstore/book";

var nodeReplaced = nlapiSelectNode(xmlData, existingBookPath);

 

//replace the child node using replaceChild

var xmlElements = nlapiSelectNode(xmlData, "/bookstore");

xmlElements.replaceChild(newBookNode,nodeReplaced);

 

//declare a variable that will hold the selected node

var nodeData = new Array();

nodeData = nlapiSelectNodes(xmlData, path );

 

//print the values of the selected nodes

for(var i = 0; i < nodeData.length; i++){

nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG','nlapiSelectNodes(xmlData, path)', nodeData[i].firstChild.nodeValue);

}

 

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Result:

User should get 'German Delight'.