note 61602 added to ref.dom

For those of you suffering with extra DOMText objects in your DOM Tree, set preserveWhiteSpace to false before loading your XML. This doesn't seem to be explicitly stated in the manual. Example: <?php $dom = new DOMDocument(); $xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <node1> <node2 /> </node1> '; $dom->loadXML( $xml ); $nodeList = $dom->getElementsByTagName( 'node1' ); $node1 = $nodeList->item(0); foreach ( $node1->childNodes as $node ) { echo 'Class: ' . get_class( $node ) . "\n"; } ?> Will result in: Class: DOMText Class: DOMElement Class: DOMText If you add: <?php $dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false; ?> You will get: Class: DOMElement ---- Server IP: 216.194.113.175 Probable Submitter: 65.117.161.228 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+61602 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61602&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+61602&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php