[x3d-public] removeNamedNode removes DEF children?

[Patrick Dähne]

> Am 11.07.2022 um 19:27 schrieb Andreas Plesch <andreasplesch at gmail.com>:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022, 12:34 PM Patrick Dähne <pdaehne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, very helpful. After the DEF name is removed, do the USE nodes still rrefer to the now nameless node ?
> 
> Yes. The scene graph does not care about DEF and USE, it is only needed to serialize the scene graph into a textual representation.
> 
> Ok.
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> > Also, is there then a way to remove a node from the scene graph ?
> 
> Yes, send events to fields (usually Group.children or Group.removeChildren).
> 
> Presumably, outer.removeChildren(inner) would then just remove the child (DEF) node. The USE node would still refer to the (original) DEF node ? 

Yes.


> Is there a way to remove all instances of a named node at once ?

No.


Bye,

Patrick