note 47081 deleted from ref.dom by didou

Note Submitter: franp at free dot fr ---- Since there is a complete interoperability between a DOM object and the corresponding SimpleXML object, you may be tempted to interchange both in order to get the best of the two worlds to achieve a given task. If so, be aware that syntax of DOM and SimpleXML are, unfortunatly, not interoperable in most cases. Consider for example the syntax to return a nodelist in both DOM and SimpleXML (in the following example the root tag is supposed to be "<racine>"): <?php // DOM object method is "childNodes" $doc = new DomDocument; $doc->loadXML($str); foreach ($doc->documentElement->childNodes as $child) { // do something } // while SimpleXML method is "children()" $sxml = simplexml_import_dom($doc); foreach ($sxml->racine->children() as $child) { // do something } ?> Nota : There is certainly some reason the php5 team chose to not unify DOM and SimpleXML and I am not able, technicaly, to discuss that choice. It would just be nice if a comparative table of syntaxes/methodes in DOM and SimpleXML was made available somewhere. Even if not comparative, simply a table of all available methods in the DOM API and SimpleXML API would be of great help.