Copying Nodes between Documents

Hi everybody,
I have a very strange problem and can�t explain why it occurs.
I�m parsing a valid XML Document, i.e. producing an DOM Document, which I want to filter partially (which works very well). But when I have filtered some Nodes and when I try to add those in another DOM document, which I also read in, the program will stop without throwing an exception!!
That�s my command:
resultDocument.getFirstChild().appendChild(someFilteredNode);
It won�t work...Does anybody know why this happens??
Thanx for any answers!!
Phil

ok, it looks like you use some old parser.
with something "recent", it should work - check:
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/apidocs/org/w3c/dom/Document.html#importNode(org.w3c.dom.Node,%20boolean)
or
http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/dist/1.1/docs/api/org/w3c/dom/Document.html#importNode(org.w3c.dom.Node,%20boolean)

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