Append a XML tag within an XML object

Question

I'm trying to insert a tag inside an XML object.

Tried the SO answer mentioned here in a different way, but couldnt achieve it.

This is what my request XML looks like.

<Root>
    <Id>1234</Id>
    <Type>2345</Type>
    <Value>RootId</Value>
    <IdNum>1234-2345</IdNum>
</Root>

And I had to add a tag to it.

<Root>
    <Id>1234</Id>
    <Type>2345</Type>
    <Value>RootId</Value>
    <IdNum>1234-2345</IdNum>
    <RefId>1234-2345</RefId>
</Root>

My code looks like below:

...  
Element rootEle = document.getElementsByTagName("Root").item(0); 
NodeList idNode = rootEle.getElementsByTagName("IdNum");
                           
Text refValue = document.createTextNode(rootEle.getElementsByTagName("IdNum").item(0).getTextContent());
Element refElement = document.createElement("RefId");
refElement.appendChild(refValue);
idNode.item(0).getParentNode().insertBefore(refElement,idNode.item(0));

Tried to print the IdNum like below and it is printing the expected result. But the additional tag alone is not getting appended.

rootEle.getElementsByTagName("IdNum").item(0).getTextContent()

Am I missing something?

try `idNode.item(0).getParentNode().insertBefore(refElement,null);` — Marc Stroebel, May 12 '21 at 14:44
serialized the document again, the element is there `1234-2345` — Marc Stroebel, May 12 '21 at 14:51
You're right Marc. The sample which I provided is just an example and your suggestion works just fine for it. But my original request starts with SOAP headers like ` ` for which your suggestion is not working. Does it have anything to do with that? — Mike, May 14 '21 at 08:18

Append a XML tag within an XML object

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