Conditional "getElementsByTagName"

[99bobster99]

I am an HTML newbie and have played around with this for many hours, without any luck.

I'm trying to copy all the "DIV" and "TD" elements from one object (elAttrLevel1) to another one (elAttrLevel1a). My code below always shows "elAttrLevel1a" as empty;

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Does anyone know of a way to create such a conditional routine?

[Leith Ross]

Hello 99bobster99,

Welcome to the Forum!

It isn't clear to me what you want to do.

HTML is a tree structure. The objects have a hierarchical relationship to each other. Objects have parents, children, and siblings. The parent or root of all other HTML objects is the DOM Object or Document Object Model.

The property getElementsByTagName creates a zero based array of objects that match a Tag Name like DIV. There are no wildcards used in HTML syntax. The array will not include any of the other objects in the tree with them like children or siblings. It returns only that object and it's properties.

[99bobster99]

Hello Leith,

Thank you for your reply!

What I am trying to accomplish is extract all the <DIV> and <TD> node's innertext, in the order this innertext appears on the webpage.

If I get all the "<DIV>" elements and then all the "<TD>" element innertext (using 2 separate set commands), the combined innertext data will not be in sequential order.

My thought was to grab all the elements, then conditionally capture each <DIV> and <TD> node's innertext as it appears on the webpage. I found the "clonenode" and "importnode" methods, that look like they can copy nodes from one HTML document to another. Is this something that could be used to keep the innertext data in sequential order?

[99bobster99]

Hello Leith,

Thank you for your reply!

What I am trying to accomplish is extract all the <DIV> and <TD> node's innertext, in the order this innertext appears on the webpage.

If I get all the "<DIV>" elements and then all the "<TD>" element innertext (using 2 separate set commands), the combined innertext data will not be in sequential order.

My thought was to grab all the elements, then conditionally capture each <DIV> and <TD> node's innertext as it appears on the webpage. I found the "clonenode" and "importnode" methods, that look like they can copy nodes from one HTML document to another. Is this something that could be used to keep the innertext data in sequential order?

Maybe a better way to say this is, how do you copy selected nodes from one HTML document to another HTML document? I'd like to select all the <DIV> & <TD> nodes from one document and copy them to a blank HTML document, in the same order as the appear in the original webpage. Would this be possible?

[99bobster99]

I'm making some headway here !!

Okay, I've gotten this far, it is almost working, I just need some assistance on the "cloneNode" method.

I am trying to copy only the "DIV" and "TD" nodes to a new HTML document.

Can someone tell me why neither of the (2) cloneNode will work? They show an error 80004005 (Unspecified Error);

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I am using Microsoft XML 6.0

[99bobster99]

Folks, why is this so difficult to figure out?

Nothing seems to work, all I want to do is clone a node (this is working) from one HTML document and append it to another HTML document (not working);

See screenshots below, any help on what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

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