Re: [PHP] DOMElement: td vs. th

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 <[email protected]> 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 $row){
>    foreach($row->childNodes as $node)
>         // stuff
> }
>
> 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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