note 80171 added to ref.simplexml

The earlier poster is right in that simplexml becomes pretty useless when you have mixed-content XML. This means that you basically cant use simplexml for (X)HTML, which is a bit of a blow. Here's a potential solution (hack) for those of you just finding out the mixed-content problem and not wanting to rewrite using DOM. This probably only really works if you have well-formed xhtml, which in my case I have from running some html through Tidy beforehand. Before passing to simplexml, run a couple of regexs on the html to put all the mixed content inside <span>s. This gets handled as separate elements in the tree. // put all text content inside a <span> because simplexmlelement // doesnt handle mixed content. // lesson learnt: dont use simplexmlelement for html $html = preg_replace('|>\s*<|','><',$html); $html = preg_replace('|>\s*([^<]+)\s*|','><span>\1</span>',$html); ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 79.75.215.245 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/80171 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80171 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/80171 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php