note 98538 deleted from function.simplexml-import-dom by danbrown

Note Submitter: jordantheboss at gmail dot com ---- In regards to what peter-SPAMrubbish-ATveridon.com mentioned, SimpleXML being able to modify the DOM is a huge deal. It's way easier to modify XML from the DOM with SimpleXML then it is using the DOM Functions. Say you wanted to add a URL to an attribute on a new XML Node; For Example, Using the DOM to Add a Child node and attribute: $xmlDoc = DOMDocument::load($xmlFile); $base = $xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('base')->item(0); $path = $xmlDoc->createElement('path'); $attr = $xmlDoc->createAttribute('url'); $attrVal = $xmlDoc->createTextNode($url); $element[] = $base->appendChild($path); $element[] = $path->appendChild($attr); $element[] = $attr->appendChild($attrVal); Doing so with SimpleXML becomes: $xmlDoc = DOMDocument::load($xmlFile); $xmlStr = simplexml_import_dom($xmlDoc); $newEle = $xmlStr->addChild('path'); $newEle->addAttribute('url',$url); Also, another important note, if you load the XML file with DOMDocument::load, and plan to transform it with XSL, your XSL can use relative paths if the XML is loaded in through the DOM, but if you load it with simplexml_load_file, then try to load the modified SimpleXML object via DOMDocument::loadXML($xmlStr->asXML()), your XSL relative paths won't work. Took me a while to figure that one out, so I figured I'd pass on the love.