Why can I not remove a child element I've just found? NOT_FOUND_ERR

Question

I\'m building a script which has to patch XML files, including replacing one list of elements with another. The following function applies a patch (involving a possibly empt

Answer 1

Building on the diagnosis by @Maurice and @fahd...

Can't you just put a condition before

parent.removeChild(node);

such as

if (parent.isSameNode(node.getParentNode()))

Then it would only remove a direct child of the given parent.