Best,
Brad Neuberg

Thanks for making look at this again.

My first drafts did use ‘replaceChild’ and ‘appendChild’ in the appropiate places. For some reason the end tags of the appended child elements were placed outside of the DIV container. But now it seems to work just fine.

I think the problem had to do with the way I declared my HTC. I was using ‘literalcontent=true’ in the PUBLIC:COMPONENT element (took it from an MS example). I had removed it because it was unnecessary. Now the DOM methods work fine.

This will make it easier to add methods to the VML elements so they look like SVG elements when scripting.

This line will cause a serialization and another parsing pass:

// swap the SVG element contents with eh new VML
element.outerHTML = oVmlRoot.outerHTML;

You can do this more efficiently using

elemen.parentNode.replaceChild(oVmlroot, element)

same goes for all the places you use outerHYML with insertAdjacentHTML and innerHTML