Re: DOMElement: td vs. th

So in other words; it's the library that you fix with wrapper functions, not the reports (outside the scope of using the library). On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Rene Veerman <rene7705@gmail.com> wrote: > function readyForDOM_report($originalReportAsText) { >  return str_replace ('<th', '<th class="transportTH"', > $originalReportAsText); > } > > $dom = new DOMDocument(); > $dom->loadHTML(readyForDOM_report($str)); > $tables = $dom->getElementsByTagName("table"); > $rows = $tables->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('tr'); > foreach($rows as $row){ >   foreach($row->childNodes as $node) >        // check $node for having a classname 'transportTH'. > } > > the only problem i foresee is <th>s in your reports already having a > class="something" set, which could mess it up. you'd need to check > that. but in that case you can always pump the original $str to the > DOM, and use multiple $k's from foreach ($arr as $k=>$v) to get to the > corresponding node, and have the original class name. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Andy Theuninck <gohanman@gmail.com> wrote: >> I could could, but that would kind of defeat the point of the project >> (I'm trying to capture a bunch of existing HTML reports via output >> buffering and transform the tables into proper XLS. Tweaking every >> single report is exactly what I'm trying to avoid). >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Rene Veerman <rene7705@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >> >