Re: appendChild help?

[Nigel S. <nig...@us...>]

> Could someone give me a simple example of appending a child to a node.
>
> e.g.
>
> file contents are <root></root>
> $xml = new XPath("$filename");
> $xml->appendData("/root[1]", "blah" );
>
> What do I put in instead of "blah" to add a node called blah?

Erm, that should work.  You should get:

<root><blah/></root>

Don't you?  How do you know you don't?  Perhaps mail round example xml file
and php script?

> I've been trying to figure this out too. The only way can do it is to
> appendChild() then appendData() into that child.
>
> $xml->appendChild("/root[1]", "newchild");
> $xml->appendData("/root[1]/newchild[1]", "some new data here");
>
> It would be nice to be able to to this in one step.
>
> Any help appreciated.

It's on it's way.  Soon you'll be able to do:

appendChild("/root[1]","<newchild>some new data here</newchild>");

Nigel

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