Thank you again for your help. I've popped the file to http://FileHost.JustFreeSpace.Com/157index.php . A typical file that'll be plugged into this template lives at http://FileHost.JustFreeSpace.Com/940index.htm . With thanks, Borden On 11/06/2008, Rob Richards <rrichards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You might want to put a link to a complete example because > $page->documentElement->getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace', > 'lang'); is how you access it. > > > Rob > > > dominussuus@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Thank you, Rob, >> >> Unfortunately, that didn't work, either (though I'll keep it in mind). >> The returned string is still empty. >> >> I also unsuccessfully fetched the 'xmlns' attribute using >> getAttribute(). Interestingly, although hasAttributes(void) returns >> true, hasAttribute('xmlns'), and hasAttribute(' xml:lang') both return >> false. >> >> On 11/06/2008, Rob Richards <rrichards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Borden Rhodes wrote: >>>> I'm having a pig of a time trying to figure this one out: I have an >>>> XHTML document which I've loaded into a DOMDocument because I want to >>>> add more tags to it. However, since I live in a bilingual country, I >>>> want to get the document's xml:lang attribute so I know what language >>>> to add my new tags in. >>>> >>>> I want to write >>>> >>>> $lang = $page->documentElement->getAttribute('xml:lang'); >>>> OR >>>> $lang = $page->documentElement->getAttributeNS('xml', 'lang'); >>>> >>>> but both of these return empty strings, indicating that it cannot find >>>> the xml:lang attribute. And yet, >>>> $page->documentElement->hasAttributes() returns true and >>>> >>>> $page->documentElement->attributes->getNamedItem('xml:lang')->nodeValue; >>>> >>>> works correctly. So why doesn't my preferred code? >>> The xml prefix is bound to the http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace >>> namespace. >>> >>> $lang = >>> $page->documentElement->getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace', >>> 'lang'); >>> >>> Rob >>> > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
