Re: DOM - parse HTML document

Hello Satyam, Thanks for your answering... >> I don't really get it to work with that functions from >> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php >> I try to get the content of <td> fields on an external html page, where >> I just know some ids of the rows. >> Example: >> ... >> <tr id = 'tr01'> >> <td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td> >> </tr> >> <tr id = 'tr02'> >> <td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td> >> </tr> >> <tr id = 'tr01'> >> <td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td> >> </tr> >><tr id = 'tr02'> >> <td>1</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>4</td> >> </tr> >> ... >> PS: Please note, that id is written more than once. So >> DomDocument->getElementById('tr01') returns only one element and not two >> or more... >> I can't find out how to grab the data in the td fields... I don't find >> examples to look at... :-( >> I'd be really glad if somebody could give me some advice or tutorial >> websites about that... > To start with, an ID should never be repeated. A name can be repeated, > an ID shouldn't. That is why there is a function to get an array of > elements with a certain name but there is none to get a list of elements > with the same ID simply because there shouldn't be any. Something > helpful in traversing the DOM is any tool that gives you a good view of > the tree structure. One such comes already in the Firefox browser. Unfortunately, I have no way to modify the source html page, it's on the web. By the way, because I found it strange to have more than one field with the same id, I looked on the famous selfhtml tutorial website http://de.selfhtml.org which says that unique id is only mandatory for css, but not for javascript actually. I was surprised... http://de.selfhtml.org/css/formate/zentrale.htm#individualformate http://en.selfhtml.org/css/formate/zentrale.htm#individualformate (english translation is a little different) LS -- "Feel free" – 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail