DomNode->child_nodes

Returns children of node ()
array DomNode->child_nodes ( )

Code Examples / Notes » domnode_child_nodes

jon.sprague

To answer hrosas)at(linuxmail)dot(org. <node> <child/> </node> <node> has 3 children. 1. whitespace between <node> and <child/> 2. <child/> 3. whitespace between <child/> and </node> The whitespace is treated like text. To avoid this remove all whitespace. <node><child/></node> This can get hard to read, but correct. But, you can tell some programs to ignore the whitespace, so it remains easy to read. Jon Sprague

grillen

There were some comments about problems with whitespaces. you can easily solve them by creating the dom-document as follows: <?php $xmlDoc = @domxml_open_mem( $xmlString , DOMXML_LOAD_PARSING + //0 DOMXML_LOAD_COMPLETE_ATTRS + //8 DOMXML_LOAD_SUBSTITUTE_ENTITIES + //4 DOMXML_LOAD_DONT_KEEP_BLANKS //16 , $error ); ?> if you call child_nodes() on eg. the root-element whitespaces are ignored.

andrew

Sometimes unless you know exactly where elements are it can be time consuming to pick each thing up with get_element_by_tagname calls. I used a quick little function that, given a structure such as: <customer> <firstname>Joe</firstname> <surname>Bloggs</surname> <age>24</age> <sex>Male</sex> ... </customer> it will return an associative array with the tag names as keys and the content as values. During the load I strip whitespace as well so it isn't confused by \n's creating blank nodes -- CODE -- $xmldoc = domxml_open_mem($xmlstring, DOMXML_LOAD_PARSING + //0 DOMXML_LOAD_COMPLETE_ATTRS + //8 DOMXML_LOAD_SUBSTITUTE_ENTITIES + //4 DOMXML_LOAD_DONT_KEEP_BLANKS //16 )); // get the node root and then the children of it. $noderoot = $xmldoc->document_element(); $childnodes = $noderoot->child_nodes(); // build the array foreach ($childnodes as $value) { echo $value->tagname . " : " . $value->get_content() . " "; $nodeArray[$value->tagname] = $value->get_content(); } -- END CODE -- You can then return node array or start using it however you like in other functions just like a normal associative array then. $nodeArray['firstname'] == "Joe"

zombie

Loop through children making sure that the children are not text nodes. <pre> $moduleDoc = domxml_open_file("main_module_defs.xml"); $moduleDefinitionXPath = xpath_new_context($moduleDoc); $dConvsNodeSet = xpath_eval($moduleDefinitionXPath, "//modules/module[@name='search']/dConvs"); $children = $dConvsNodeSet->nodeset[0]-> child_nodes(); $dTotal = count($children); for ($i=0;$i<$dTotal;$i++){ $curNode = $children[$i]; if($curNode->node_name() != "#text"){ echo "This are probably TextNodes..."; } } </pre> -- http://artattack.to

j dot metzger

if no children present, method returns FALSE (bool) you can check the return result like this: $children = $domNode -> child_nodes(); if (is_bool($children)) print "Sorry, no children present ...";

hrosas

I was using child_nodes and if I have a node like this. <node> <child/> </node> the node <node> have two children: one the " " spaces that appear as #text on php and <child/>. Is that normal? I think node has just one child <child/>

zombie

Here is a handy little function i started using at work and home quite a bit. It takes in an array of nodes, typically from DomNode->child_nodes() as well as a filter argument and returns an array of filtered out nodes. If the $filter arg is a string, then the $boolean argument is used. If boolean is true, then only nodes named $filter will be returned. If boolean is false, then only nodes NOT named $filter will be returend. Additionally, you can specify the filter as an assoc array in the form of $array[$node_name] = true|false and only nodes in the array with a true value are returend. Note that if it is an array, then $boolean is not used. I was planning on having the boolean act as a negation kinda like !in_array(), but it was more for completeness than need so i dropped it. function get_filtered_children($children_array,$filter,$boolean = true){ $total_children = count($children_array); for ($i = 0; $i < $total_children; $i++){ $cur_child = $children_array[$i]; $node_name = $cur_child->node_name(); if (is_array($filter)){ //array in the form of [node_name] = true|false if ($filter[$node_name]) $filtered_children_array[] = $cur_child; } else if(is_string($filter)){ //string hopefully... if ($boolean && $node_name == $filter) $filtered_children_array[] = $cur_child; elseif (!$boolean && $node_name != $filter) $filtered_children_array[] = $cur_child; } else user_error('filter is of type ' . gettype($filter) . '. Please only supply arrays or strings.', E_USER_ERROR); } return $filtered_children_array; } Blaine Garrett Web Master of the Art Attack http://artattack.to

arcana

A better way to check for Text Child nodes (PHP 4.3.0) if ($childnode->node_type() == XML_TEXT_NODE) { echo "<br/>This item is a text node."; } else { echo "<br/>This item is not a text node."; } You may want to look at DomElement->is_blank_node() as well.

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DomNode->child_nodes

Returns children of node () array DomNode->child_nodes ( )

Code Examples / Notes » domnode_child_nodes

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Returns children of node ()
array DomNode->child_nodes ( )