Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] php parsing

On 10.9.2004 11:56 Uhr, Gert Mellak wrote:

> Hi, NG!
> 
> I've spent many hours trying to understand why the dom-functions in
> php do this and that, but the following I can't understand:
> 
> My xml-file looks like:
> 
> <Data>
> <Article>
> <Number>3746</Number>
> <Description>This is the article description</Description>
> <Groups>
> <Group1>Group1</Group1>
> <Group2>Group2</Group2>
> <Group3>Group3</Group3>
> </Groups>
> </Article>
> </Data>
> 
> having the current node "Groups", I call
> 
> //-- snip
> $childNodes = $curNode->child_nodes();
> echo "Number of child-nodes: " . count($childNodes) . "<br>";
> //-- /snip
> 
> The output is: "Number of child-nodes: 7"
> 
> When I echo the node_name() of each child-node, every second node is
> called #text
> 
> Could anyone of you explain why php reacts like this? I would expect a
> child-count of three and definitely no #text-nodes...

Between </Group1> and <Group2> is definitively a text-node ("\n").

You have to live with that, whitespaceonly text nodes are not negligible...

chregu
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Gert.
> 

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