MrFish Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) Hello W3S, I'm trying to use DOMDocument but when i use appendChild its not appending to the element I expect it to. Here is a simple example- $DOM = new DOMDocument();$DOM->appendChild($DOM->createElement("div"));$DOM->appendChild($DOM->createElement("div"));$DOM->appendChild($DOM->createElement("div"));$DOM->appendChild($DOM->createElement("div"));echo $DOM->saveXML(); What I expect- <body> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div></body> What I get- <body> <div> <div> <div> <div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body> I've looked at the PHP documentation and this looks like how they did it but obviously I'm missing something. Can anyone spot my mistake? Edit: Also, i need to use createElement because I want to manipulate the elements before adding them. When you use new DOMElement() its read only for whatever reason Edited June 4, 2012 by MrFish 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I get this: <?xml version="1.0"?><div/><div/><div/><div/> The elements aren't nested under each other, they're all on the same level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFish Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Strange. I will investigate on that and see what I can find.Could it be a PHP version issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 I doubt it, it sounds like you might be referring to the wrong element when you append. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFish Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) That's the same code I used as posted in OP. I checked an old file I used on this same server which printed correctly. Started stripping it down and found it started nesting incorrectly after I took out text nodes. This now works- $DOM = new DOMDocument(); $div = $DOM->createElement("div"); $div->appendChild($DOM->createTextNode(""));$DOM->appendChild($div); $div = $DOM->createElement("div"); $div->appendChild($DOM->createTextNode(""));$DOM->appendChild($div); $div = $DOM->createElement("div"); $div->appendChild($DOM->createTextNode(""));$DOM->appendChild($div); $div = $DOM->createElement("div"); $div->appendChild($DOM->createTextNode(""));$DOM->appendChild($div);echo $DOM->saveXML(); But it seems like a cheap trick. How does this page look for you? [ URL REMOVED ] Edit: Oh wait you're right. I was viewing the page through Chromes element inspector. In the HTML it's <div/> like you said. This doesn't register as <div></div> though. Any idea how to make that print differently without text nodes? Edited June 26, 2012 by MrFish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFish Posted June 4, 2012 Author Share Posted June 4, 2012 Solved The answer is simply to use $DOM->saveHTML() instead of $DOM->saveXML() Simple enough. Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boen_robot Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Using saveHTML() can be problematic if what you're outputting is XML, although in your case, it doesn't seem like it.In case you do need to use XML (for the sake of, let's say nesting SVG), you can have the output you want by passing an option to saveXML(), like: $DOM->saveXML(null, LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG); Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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