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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Copying HTML from a document to another document
From: chregu@bitflux.ch (Christian Stocker)



On 19.9.2004 21:38 Uhr, Sam Hobbs wrote:
> "Christian Stocker" <chregu@bitflux.ch> wrote in message 
> news:414DD1DD.80205@bitflux.ch...
> 
>>
>>On 19.9.2004 20:30 Uhr, Sam Hobbs wrote:
>>
>>>Please see:
>>>
>>>Copying HTML from a document to another document
>>>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=109419037409980&w=2
>>>
>>>It has been more than two weeks without a reply. I suspect there is a bug 
>>>in PHP. I assume the people looking at that list can't answer the 
>>>question.
>>>
>>>Am I supposed to ask questions such as that in this list instead.?
>>
>>Nope, file a bug report, if you think, it's a bug ;)
>>
>>But don't bother, it's not a bug. You have to use 
>>$DomDocuemnt->importNode(), if you want to copy a node from one document 
>>to another. See
>>http://ch.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domdocument-importnode.php
>>and the W3C docs.
> 
> 
> I did try many things, including importNode. I did look at the documentation 
> as much as I can. I looked at many other sites. I converted the PHP code to 
> JavaScript, as I said in the other message. The JavaScript version does not 
> need importNode.
> 
> I have heard the "read the manual" song many times. Just saying look at the 
> manual does not help. How do I use importNode to do this? The manual does 
> not explain how and does not help me to understand how.

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#Core-Document-importNode

explains it all quite good. And it's no guarantee, that it works in 
php5, if it works in JS  (the JS implementations aren't flawless ;) )

 > People seem so quick to criticize and slow to help.

This is soooo the wrong place for whining again about "nobody's helping 
me"...

Please move along, nothing to see here.

chregu

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