Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] Dom and SimpleXml Xpath return types

[email protected] ("Rob Richards") Wed, 3 Mar 2004 12:16:48 -0500
Newsgroups php.xml.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> >From my understanding of the XPath spec, there should be four return
types:
> NodeSet, number, string or boolean. Using either Dom or SimpleXml I don't
> seem to be able to get anything except a NodeSet (either an object or an
> array respectively).

xpath is not fully implemented and is currently only returning nodesets.

And pertaining to your earlier question, simplexml is only returning an
array if it has a nodeset to return.

Rob