Table 1.

XBabelPhish primitive operations

Operation	Definition	Target Location	New Content	New Content Type	Result
addElementFirst	add an element as the first child of a targeted parent element	<x>	<a/>	element to add	<x><a/></x>
addElementLast	add an element as the last child of a targeted parent	<x>	<d/>	element to add	<x> <a/> <d/> </x>
insertElementAfter	insert an element after a targeted sibling element	<a>	<b/>	element to add	<x> <a/> <b/> <d/> </x>
insertElementBefore	insert an element before a targeted sibling element	<d>	<c/>	element to add	<x> <a/> <b/> <c/> <d/> </x>
addAttribute	add an attribute to a targeted element	<x>	name	name of attribute to add	<x> name="xFamily" <a/> <b/> <c/> <d/> </x>
			"xFamily"	attribute value
addTextStart	add text to the start of an element	<x>	"start"	text to add	<x> start name="xFamily" <a/> <b/> <c/> <d/> </x>
addTextEnd	add text to the end of an element	<x>	"end"	text to add	<x> start name="xFamily" <a/> <b/> <c/> <d/> end </x>
delete	delete a target node of any type	<d>		node to delete	<x> start name="xFamily" <a/> <b/> <c/> end </x>
rename	rename a target element or attribute node	<a>/@name	title	new name	<x> start title="xFamily" <a/> <b/> <c/> end </x>
update	update the value of a target element or attribute node	<a>/@title	"abcGroup"	new (attribute) value	<x> start title="abcGroup" <a/> <b/> <c/> end </x>

The Operation in the first row is applied to the simple, abstract XML snippet:

<x> </x>

The Operation in each succeeding row applies to the Result of the row immediately preceding it.