Re: Working with XML: DomDocument or SimpleXML?

Colin Guthrie wrote:

Rob wrote:

if ($xml instanceof SimpleXMLElement) { /* No copying, just use the existing XML tree directly */ $node = dom_import_simplexml($xml); return $node->ownerDocument; }

Yeah I had that initially too but that did not produce a DOMDocument Object but a DOMNode Object (or something like that.... will have to test again as memory is corrupted - there /was/ a reason, and stupid me didn't comment the code.....).

It had to have been for some other reason as the return type for the above example is a DOMDocument. A raw DOMNode is *NEVER* returned from the DOM extension. It is simply a base class for most of the DOM classes, such as DOMDocument. Rob