note 44389 added to ref.dom

I'm getting fed up with having to be so verbose with DOM methods. A lot of the code I write is of the form: $dom = new DOMDocument(); $doc = $dom->createElement('document'); $a = $dom->createElement('title'); $b = $dom->createTextNode('title of the doc'); $a->appendChild($b); $doc->appendChild($a); In ActionScript, since you can 'insert' methods into classes, I have been able to create a method like this DOMNode.appendChildWithText(nodeName, textValue) { // do same as above, but encapsulated } which turns that mess above into a simple call like $doc->appendChildWithText('title', 'some title'); Has anyone got any idea how I might be able to achieve the same sort of thing in PHP[5]? ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+44389 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+44389&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+44389&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php