Bug #14817: Feature: copying/paste nodes to each other

From: r.klinkenberg@student.utwente.nl Operating system: PHP version: 4.1.1 PHP Bug Type: DOM XML related Bug description: Feature: copying/paste nodes to each other Currently I'm building system that stores xml data in a database. When I get this data out of m database and try to put it into a node, all the xml inside is escaped. For example: ----------------------------------------------------------- $xml = '<list> <item>first</item> <item>second</item> </list>'; $D_doc = new_xmldoc("1.0"); $D_root = $D_doc->add_root('page'); $D_node = $D_root->new_child('posting', $xml); Header('Content-type: text/xml'); echo $D_doc->dumpmem(); ----------------------------------------------------------- Will output the following data: ----------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <page><posting>&lt;list&gt; &lt;item&gt;first&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item&gt;second&lt;/item&gt; &lt;/list&gt;</posting></page> ----------------------------------------------------------- Often that is not desired. Therefore I hoped it should be possible to 'copy/paste' dom objects. If that would be possible, I could do something like this: Example: ----------------------------------------------------------- $xml = '<list> <item>first</item> <item>second</item> </list>'; $D_doc = new_xmldoc("1.0"); $D_root = $D_doc->add_root('page'); // Create DOM object from the data $D_posting = xmldoc('<?xml version="1.0"?><posting>' . $xml . '</posting>'); // Paste the root of $D_posting to the first DOM document $D_node = $D_root->add_node($D_posting); Header('Content-type: text/xml'); echo $D_doc->dumpmem(); ----------------------------------------------------------- What should output: ----------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" ?> <page> <posting> <list> <item>first</item> <item>second</item> </list> </posting> </page> ----------------------------------------------------------- Currently I'm using a xmltree() to make a DOM document from $xml. The result from xmltree() is that recursively walked through and the nodes that are found are added to the first DOM document. Hopefully there is a way to implement the direct copying of dom object, like eg. in Java. -- Rense -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=14817&edit=1