Re: Object assignment

Tom: Thanks for the help. Using the array setup you described, I end up with the value of each "record" node being appended to a single instance of the parent node. And that single instance of the parent node is the final one that was parsed (the attributes verify this). The example I used below is outputting this: <rootElement> <record id="2">Value 1Value 2</record> </rootElement> Any ideas? -- Matt Grimm Web Developer The Health TV Channel, Inc. (a non - profit organization) 3820 Lake Otis Parkway Anchorage, AK 99508 907.770.6200 ext. 686 907.336.6205 (fax) E-mail: mgrimm@healthtvchannel.org Web: www.healthtvchannel.org "Tom Rogers" <trogers@kwikin.com> wrote in message news:1218162094.20030709111505@kwikin.com... > Hi, > > Wednesday, July 9, 2003, 10:38:22 AM, you wrote: > MG> I'm having trouble creating objects with DOMXML. As I loop through a level > MG> of nodes, I'm creating a new element based on the array's key name. The XML > MG> might look like this: > > MG> <rootElement> > MG> <record id="1">Value 1</record> > MG> <record id="2">Value 2</record> > MG> </rootElement> > > MG> So I'd be doing this with DOMXML in a loop: > > $thisChild = $doc->>create_element($key); > MG> $thisChild = $ancestor->append_child($thisChild); > > MG> Where $key is 'record' in this example, and $ancestor is 'rootElement', > MG> which is carried along in the function. > > MG> The problem that when I reach the second element by the same name, and in > MG> the same node level, I'm overwriting the $thisChild object that I just > MG> created. How can I dynamically name these objects so that I can have an > MG> indeterminate number of elements by the same name, in the same level? > > What I have done is to keep an array of elements so it would work like > this > > $elements = array(); > > //loop > if(!isset($elements[$key])){ > $elements[$key] = $doc->create_element($key); > } > $thisChild = $ancestor->append_child($elements[$key]); > //end loop > > -- > regards, > Tom >