Re: [Q] Domxml: unlink() method?

Peter Sabaini wrote: > > hello, > > i am rather desperately trying to figure out how to delete a node > object from the DOM. > > say i have a node $node by manually traversing the DOM tree or by an > xpath_eval() function call. i can access the children > ($node->children()) or the parent ($node->parent()) or add a sub-node > ($node->new_child()) but there seems to be no $node->unlink() or > something like that to remove $node from my DOM tree. > > in libxml which the php domxml extension is built upon there's a > function xmlUnlinkNode() which seems to do just that, but there is no > binding for this function in php (or i didn't find it. i looked in > ext/domxml/php_domxml.c). > > any solutions / workarounds / patches anyone? or am i being plain > dumb -- i am pretty a php novice so chances are i overlooked the very > very obvious. > I've been playing w/ DOM XML extension for my documentation catalog (docs.digiro.net still work in progress ;), and my first shot would be to unset the node from the children list of its parent. I also dig for what methods a DomNode, DomAttribute etc. have and figured out some. I would like to see them documented somewhere ... -- teodor