Error while trying to delete XML Node

[12p]

Why can't I delete this XML node? It should work but it doesn't, everything I try shows me my debug error: "error erasing map".

function eraseMap () 
    stopResource(getResourceFromName("minecraftmap")) 
    local mapFile = xmlLoadFile (":minecraftmap/map.map") 
    if xmlDestroyNode (mapFile) then 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Map erased.") 
    else 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Error erasing map.") 
    end 
end 

[Castillo]

you are trying to destroy the file not the node lol.

[12p]

But xmlLoadFile returns a XML Node, it should work. Whatever, I used

function eraseMap () 
    stopResource(getResourceFromName("minecraftmap")) 
    local mapFile = xmlLoadFile (":minecraftmap/map.map") 
    local node = xmlFindChild (mapFile,"map",1) 
    if xmlDestroyNode (node) then 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Map erased.") 
    else 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Error erasing map.") 
    end 
end 

and still don't work. But it tells me this error: "ERROR: bad argument "xmlDestroyNode".

ps: the filepath is OK, isn't that

[Castillo]

xmlLoadFile has something wrong thats why it won't work.

[12p]

function eraseMap () 
    stopResource(getResourceFromName("minecraftmap")) 
    if xmlLoadFile (":minecraftmap/map.map") then 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Map loaded for erasing.") 
    end 
    --[[local node = xmlFindChild (mapFile,"map",1) 
    if xmlDestroyNode (node) then 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Map erased.") 
    else 
     outputDebugString ("Minecraft: Error erasing map.") 
    end ]]-- 
end 

It isn't the problem. If the problem is "xmlLoadFile" then my debug message shouldn't appear.

PS: Maybe MTA inside error?

[Aibo]

maybe you just can't destroy root node, that's all.

try deleting all children.

[12p]

Isn't supposed I can?

[Aibo]

it makes perfect sense:

xmlLoadFile returns root node. if you delete the root node, how can you operate the loaded XML file?

just delete the file and that's it. maybe.

EDIT: on the other hand, maybe you are trying to delete the file.

anyway, i'd just delete all children of the root node.

[12p]

I just deleted the file by removeResourceFile. Thanks Aiboforcen.