Re: DOMElement: td vs. th

From: Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:45:56 +0000
Subject: Re: DOMElement: td vs. th
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hmm lame bug... but you can add a classname to the <th>s and check for that?.. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Andy Theuninck <gohanman@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to parse a string containing an HTML table using the > builtin DOM classes and running into an odd problem. > > Here's what I'm doing: > $dom = new DOMDocument(); > $dom->loadHTML($str); > $tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName("table"); > $rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr'); > foreach($rows as $row){ >    foreach($row->childNodes as $node) >         // stuff > } > > This gives me the row elements in order and access to their contents. > The weird part is $node always appears to be a td tag - even when it's > a th tag in the original string (DOMElement::tagName is always "td" > (as well as DOMNode::nodeName and DOMNode::localName)). The th tags > definitely aren't being omitted; I still get nodes with their > contents, just with the wrong tag name. > > Is there any way to override this behavior so that I can distinguish > between td tags and th tags? > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >

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