[GROOVY-4073] Add extra DOM manipulation methods to DOMCategory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2, 1.8-beta-1
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Peter Ledbrook
• Created: 22/Feb/10 09:40
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:13
• Resolved: 24/Feb/10 02:43

Description

XmlSlurper allows you to add nodes using this syntax:

def node = new XmlSlurper().parse(...)
node.'filter' + {
    'filter-name'('shirFilter')
    'filter-class'('...')
}

I would actually like to replace XmlSlurper in one part of Grails with DOMCategory, so it would be great if DOMCategory supported the same syntax.

I have attached a patch that implements the above and also adds a replaceNode() method and support for negative and range indices.