Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19858 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 24905 invoked by uid 1010); 31 Oct 2005 09:27:30 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 24890 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2005 09:27:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Oct 2005 09:27:30 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.249.82.195 xproxy.gmail.com Linux 2.4/2.6 Received: from ([66.249.82.195:30343] helo=xproxy.gmail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id EC/F3-02082-283E5634 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 04:27:30 -0500 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t12so909045wxc for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:27:27 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c1YT+Lb49iGa1/asku+7/kYjbZHBcDxI7oo8BTZsGSmrGPWMNA3ud1dPsmqCCJyy3z0wMqnUbFlb81UVnHA32rdhnRA3QTygMGEK4AAKrciaNs3H/IQeCZtSLvOg11boZhl6SLpuZ1tBeChEidaiRDPip87VBFvp+qqc+gyRYS0= Received: by 10.70.15.10 with SMTP id 10mr1583492wxo; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.44.11 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:27:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:27:27 +0200 To: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <4365E1AA.4020602@bitflux.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4365E1AA.4020602@bitflux.ch> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is really no one interested? From: manchokapitancho@gmail.com (Marian Kostadinov) > SimpleXML is meant to be simple and the desicion was made to keep its > API short. Use DOM if you want those more advanced features (there's > dom_import_simplexml() and simplexml_import_dom() for easy and fast > switching between those 2) > > chregu SimpleXML is simple and that is great. But such a CORE functionality like getting a SimpleXML node own name and type is not available. It's funny that one can access absolutely everything about a node children, attributes and so on very easily and intuitively, but cannot access node's own name:)