Re: DOM - change a tag name ??

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@mac.com> wrote: > If I'm manipulating a dom object, is there a way to change the tag name? > I know you manipulate just about everything else in a node - but is the > tagName really off limits? > > from the documentation for DOMElement - > > /* Properties */ > readonly public bool $schemaTypeInfo ; > readonly public string $tagName ; > > so if I really needed to change it, I'd have to create a virgin node with > the new name, identical attributes and children, and replace the existing > node with the new one? > > Is there any other way to alter the tagName without doing all that? > If this is related to your earlier post about attributes, is XSLT not an option? I hate to sound like a broken record, but PHP has support for XSL transformations and it sounds like that is exactly what you are trying to do. Andrew