Re: Is really no one interested?

Marian Kostadinov wrote:

//But how can I understand what is the name of the root node? $dom_sxe = dom_import_simplexml($sxe1); //Hooray, we've got node name echo $dom_sxe->nodeName; //And what happens if element sequence changes? . echo $dom_sxe->childNodes->item(1)->firstChild->firstChild->firstChild->nodeValue; //... hm... I prefer SimpleXML. The API is to be kept simple and what you are asking for can be done extending the SimpleXMLElement and the functions are a whole 1 line of user code:

<?php class cNode extends SimpleXMLElement { function getName() {

     return dom_import_simplexml($this)->nodeName;

} function getType() {

     return dom_import_simplexml($this)->nodeType;

} } $xml = '<root />'; $sxe = simplexml_load_string($xml, 'cNode'); print $sxe->getName()."\n"; print $sxe->getType()."\n"; ?> Of course XPath could be used in place of DOM too though. Rob