> -----Original Message----- > From: Victor Spång Arthursson [mailto:victor@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: 27 May 2005 17:25 > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: DOM: browse childnodes but not recursively > > Ciao! > > I really hope someone can help me on this, since I have been > putting in to much time in it now, and I have to show off > some results ;) > > The problem is that I can't browse nodelists in only one > dimension, that is, whitout getting the sub-nodes of the nodes. > > My XML reads: > > <element id="5"> > <element id="51">Still got the blues</element> > <element id="52">Gary Moore</element> > <element id="53"> > <element id="9"> > <element id="531">Maggie May</element> > <element id="532">Rod Stewart</element> > <element id="533">UK</element> > <element id="534">Pickwick</element> > <element id="535">8.50</element> > <element id="536">1990</element> > </element> > </element> > <element id="54">Virgin records</element> > <element id="55">10.20</element> > <element id="56">1990</element> > </element> > > I get this as a DOMNodeList in the variable $elements. I will > write some examples, to describe my problem. > > echo $elements->length; > // outputs 1 > > var_dump($elements); > // outputs object(DOMNodeList)#5 (0) { } > > var_dump($elements->item(0)); // contents of element with id="5" > // outputs object(DOMElement)#4 (0) { } > > Here I come to the problem. What I want is to get a list of > the 6 elements inside element id="5", but not with child-childs. > > echo $elements->item(0)->childNodes->length; > // Outputs 13!!!!! childNodes contains the textnodes too, in this case the whitespace between each of <element>. > So, to put it in short words; how do I do to browse the > content of the element id="5" withuot doing it recursively? I > want to receive a list when I call childNodes (or equivalent) > that gives me the elements with id 51-56, and a length of 6. > for($child = $elements->item(0)->firstChild; $child; $child = $child->nextSibling) if ($child->nodeType == XML_ELEMENT_NODE) echo $child->getAttribute('id'), "\n"; Jared -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
