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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Is really no one interested?
From: christian.stocker@bitflux.ch (Christian Stocker)



On 1.11.2005 8:48 Uhr, Marian Kostadinov wrote:
> Who says that I have a well-formed DTD? DTD is not necessary in many
> cases. I will illustrate with example why DOM is too "complex" ...
> compared to SimpleXML.
> 
> <?php
> //These are my 2 XML documents. No DTD - just a simple xml structure.
> $xml1 = '<root1><q/><a><b><c><d>hi1</d></c></b></a><q/></root1>';
> $xml2 = '<root2><q/><a><b><c><d>hi2</d></c></b></a><q/></root2>';
> 
> $sxe1 = new SimpleXMLElement ($xml1);
> $sxe2 = new SimpleXMLElement ($xml2);
> 
> //Easy access to a node. It's great!
> echo $sxe1->a->b->c->d;
> echo $sxe2->a->b->c->d;
> 
> //But how can I understand what is the name of the root node?
> $dom_sxe = dom_import_simplexml($sxe1);
> 
> //Hooray, we've got node name
> echo $dom_sxe->nodeName;
> 
> //And what happens if element sequence changes? .
> echo $dom_sxe->childNodes->item(1)->firstChild->firstChild->firstChild->nodeValue;
> //... hm... I prefer SimpleXML.

use xpath :) as easy as simplexml and much more powerfull, IMHO

and noone said you should use exclusively dom.

chregu


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