Re: [PHP4BETA] XML DOM and top-level document constructs

At 12:11 PM +0100 02-29-2000, Uwe Steinmann wrote:

On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 09:58:47PM -0600, Paul DuBois wrote: Paul, your error reports are great. I'll see if I can fix it. Thanks a lot. Uwe

php 4.0b4-dev I'm trying to understand how top-level constructs are handled by the DOM support for XML documents. I've modified a copy of the tests/testdom script to perform tests 1 and 2 (which generate xmldoc and xmltree structures and print them). I'm using a very simple document as a test. First document, which has a single top-level construct, the <root> element: $xmlstr = "<?xml version='1.0'?> <root> <!-- comment --> <element>Text</element> </root> ";

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After some examination of the sources, my (very uneducated) guess is that this is occurring in the domxml_root() function. It calls docp->root, which from my understanding of the libxml documents, just returns the first child of the document object. Since that isn't necessarily an element, domxml_root() may not really be returning the document root element. Maybe the xmlDocGetRootElement() function would be more appropriate for this? -- Paul DuBois, paul@snake.net