Re: unexpected behaviour in SimpleXML (php 5.2.2)

The attribute is not a child XML node. For walking through attributes SimpleXML has $node->attributes() method. And if($node->attributes()) check works as expected. So I think $node->children() must be just for child XML nodes, not for attributes (there is no sense to give back results for attributes since we have attributes() method). Vesselin Kenashkov On 5/22/07, kepbepos kepbepos <kepbepos@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I'm not an expert, but in your example -------- $str = '<rootnode><subnode></subnode></rootnode>'; $x = new SimpleXMLElement($str); if($x->subnode->children())

    print 'yes';
    else
        print 'no';

--------- will print 'no'; ok no children If the $str='<rootnode><subnode><newnode></newnode></subnode></rootnode>'; it will print yes. ok has one child: <newnode> But the same will happen if the subnode has an attribute like: $str = '<rootnode><subnode id="2"></subnode></rootnode>'; I think is correct, in fact (if I'm right) an attribute is a child. Following DOM the tree is: rootnode

     |

subnode

     |
    id

Here an example explaining that http://www.w3schools.com/dom/nodetree.gif Please someone else to confirm. See you