RE: [PHP] How to build a XML DTD on "the fly"?
| From: | Jared Williams | Date: | Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:41:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] How to build a XML DTD on "the fly"? | ||
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>
> Jared Williams wrote:
> >
> > There is no real standard for creating DTDs on the fly, and
> therefore libxml/DOM doesn't have any methods afaik.
> >
> > The one method DOMElement::setIDAttribute() should work I
> think, but
> > whilst PHP has the method, doesnt seem todo anything. :/
>
> DocumentType nodes are read-only in DOM thus cannot be built
> on the fly.
> Also notice that not all components, such as ATTLIST, even
> have a node type.
>
> setIDAttribute - thats on the TODO list. Were some previous
> libxml issues to be resolved before that could be implemented
> (so it will be added, but require a minimum libxml2 version to work).
> Can always use xml:id attributes for that purpose for now though.
setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace',
'id', 'abc') doesnt work either, getElementById() still fails.
Jared