So in other words; it's the library that you fix with wrapper
functions, not the reports (outside the scope of using the library).
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Rene Veerman <rene7705@gmail.com> wrote:
> function readyForDOM_report($originalReportAsText) {
tAsText);
> }
>
> $dom = new DOMDocument();
> $dom->loadHTML(readyForDOM_report($str));
> $tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName("table");
> $rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr');
> foreach($rows as $row){
> }
>
> the only problem i foresee is <th>s in your reports already having a
> class="something" set, which could mess it up. you'd need to check
> that. but in that case you can always pump the original $str to the
> DOM, and use multiple $k's from foreach ($arr as $k=>$v) to get to the
> corresponding node, and have the original class name.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Andy Theuninck <gohanman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I could could, but that would kind of defeat the point of the project
>> (I'm trying to capture a bunch of existing HTML reports via output
>> buffering and transform the tables into proper XLS. Tweaking every
>> single report is exactly what I'm trying to avoid).
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Rene Veerman <rene7705@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hmm lame bug... but you can add a classname to the <th>s and check for that?..
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Andy Theuninck <gohanman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to parse a string containing an HTML table using the
>>>> builtin DOM classes and running into an odd problem.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what I'm doing:
>>>> $dom = new DOMDocument();
>>>> $dom->loadHTML($str);
>>>> $tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName("table");
>>>> $rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr');
>>>> foreach($rows as $row){
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> This gives me the row elements in order and access to their contents.
>>>> The weird part is $node always appears to be a td tag - even when it's
>>>> a th tag in the original string (DOMElement::tagName is always "td"
>>>> (as well as DOMNode::nodeName and DOMNode::localName)). The th tags
>>>> definitely aren't being omitted; I still get nodes with their
>>>> contents, just with the wrong tag name.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way to override this behavior so that I can distinguish
>>>> between td tags and th tags?
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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