I am using XML.jl. I have a basic XML node that I use as a base from which I wish to construct many slightly different instances. On each occasion, I want to copy the basic node and build from there. The Readme page for XML.jl says: Node is an immutable type. However, you can easily create a copy…

On a random walk through options, I seem to have hit upon copynode(o)=XML.Node(o.nodetype, o.tag, o.attributes, o.value, isnothing(o.children) ? nothing : [copynode(x) for x in o.children]) Which recursively copies a node and all its children. As far as I can tell, this gives the same result as d…

Reliably make a clean copy of an XML node

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TimG May 31, 2025, 11:24am 5

Understood! The like was to try to be welcoming

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Which copy function should I overload?

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Reliably make a clean copy of an XML node

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