note 97167 deleted from libxml.constants by cweiske

[email protected] Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:37:42 -0800
Newsgroups	php.notes
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Note Submitter: silver dot alecs at yahoo dot com 

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LIBXML_NOBLANKS option doesn't work for me and i don't understand why.
I have the following XML file:

<?xml version='1.0'?> 
<document>
	<title>Forty What?</title>
	<from>Joe</from>
	<to>Jane</to>
	<body>I know that's the answer -- but what's the question?</body>
	<blank></blank>
	<super attr='tel' attr2=' '>
		<ceva>test</ceva>
		<altceva attr="yes"/>
	</super>
</document>

I load it using:
$xml = simplexml_load_file('testxml.xml', NULL, LIBXML_NOBLANKS);

By using the parameter LIBXML_NOBLANKS i would expected to remove blank nodes such as <blank></blank> but instead when i display the array using print_r($xml) it looks like this:

<?php
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
    [title] => Forty What?
    [from] => Joe
    [to] => Jane
    [body] => I know that's the answer -- but what's the question?
    [blank] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
        )
    [super] => SimpleXMLElement Object
        (
            [@attributes] => Array
                (
                    [attr] => tel
                    [attr2] =>  
                ) 
            [ceva] => test
            [altceva] => SimpleXMLElement Object
                (
                    [@attributes] => Array
                        (
                            [attr] => yes
                        )
                )
        )
)
?>

Can anyone help me ?
Appreciate.