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appendChild help?

[Paul / U. <pa...@tr...>]

I'm using Php.XPath Version 2.1 and I'm having some trouble understanding what to pass into appendChild as the node.

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?

Paul
www.nostalgiagoggles.com
	

Re: appendChild help?

[Girish N. <gi...@bt...>]

Hi

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.


Girish

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul / USH" <pa...@tr...>
To: <php...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: appendChild help?


> I'm using Php.XPath Version 2.1 and I'm having some trouble understanding
what to pass into appendChild as the node.
>
> 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?
>
> Paul
> www.nostalgiagoggles.com
>
>
>
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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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Re: appendChild help?

[Paul / U. <pa...@tr...>]

On 06 Nov 2001 11:41 GMT you wrote:

> Hi
> 
> 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");

Thankyou, you've just solved my initial problem
I was using appendData - when I should have been using appendChild first.

Paul
www.nostalgiagoggles.com


> 
> It would be nice to be able to to this in one step.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> 
> Girish
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul / USH" <pa...@tr...>
> To: <php...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:19 AM
> Subject: appendChild help?
> 
> 
> > I'm using Php.XPath Version 2.1 and I'm having some trouble understanding
> what to pass into appendChild as the node.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Paul
> > www.nostalgiagoggles.com

Re: appendChild help?

[Dan A. <big...@us...>]

Remember, appendChild returns the absolute path (aka /root[1]/newchild[1]) so that you don't have to figure it out manually after adding the new child.  so you can do

$newnode = $xml->appendChild("/root[1]","newchild");
$xml->appendData($newnode,"data);

Dan

On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 14:26:49 GMT
Paul / USH <pa...@tr...> wrote:

> On 06 Nov 2001 11:41 GMT you wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > 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");
> 
> Thankyou, you've just solved my initial problem
> I was using appendData - when I should have been using appendChild first.
> 
> Paul
> www.nostalgiagoggles.com
> 
> 
> > 
> > It would be nice to be able to to this in one step.
> > 
> > Any help appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > Girish
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul / USH" <pa...@tr...>
> > To: <php...@li...>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:19 AM
> > Subject: appendChild help?
> > 
> > 
> > > I'm using Php.XPath Version 2.1 and I'm having some trouble understanding
> > what to pass into appendChild as the node.
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > Paul
> > > www.nostalgiagoggles.com
> 
> 
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Very basic question

[Luc Saint-E. <lu...@sa...>]

Hello,

I've been using phpxml the xpath.class.php but only to read wml file.

Now I need to use it to add stuff in a xml file and I fail

The file is very basic:
<connectes>
<user name="fooname" intime="footime"/>
<user name="fooname1" intime="footime2"/>
etc...
</connectes>

Doing :


require_once 'lib/XPath.class.php';
$xPath = new XPath();
$attributes = array();
$xPath->reset();
$xPath->importFromFile('xml_files/connectes.xml');
$xPath->appendChild('/connectes[1]', 'user');
$attributes['name'] = $user_name; // => $user_name is a session variable
$attributes['intime'] = time();
$xPath->setAttributes('/connectes[1]/user[1]', $attributes);

Nothing happen, I get no error but the xml file is left untouched

Luc

Re: Very basic question

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

> I've been using phpxml the xpath.class.php but only to read wml file.
>
> Now I need to use it to add stuff in a xml file and I fail
>
> The file is very basic:
> <connectes>
> <user name="fooname" intime="footime"/>
> <user name="fooname1" intime="footime2"/>
> etc...
> </connectes>
>
> Doing :
>
>
> require_once 'lib/XPath.class.php';
> $xPath = new XPath();
> $attributes = array();
> $xPath->reset();
> $xPath->importFromFile('xml_files/connectes.xml');
> $xPath->appendChild('/connectes[1]', 'user');
> $attributes['name'] = $user_name; // => $user_name is a session variable
> $attributes['intime'] = time();
> $xPath->setAttributes('/connectes[1]/user[1]', $attributes);
>
> Nothing happen, I get no error but the xml file is left untouched

Are you doing a ->exportToFile($filename)?  If you don't export, then
changes will not persist to disk.

Nigel

Re: Very basic question

[Luc Saint-E. <lu...@sa...>]

Nigel,

In fact I had to ad :

  $xPath->setAttribute('/am/i/stupid[1]', 'yes');

Luc

At 14:18 16/01/02 +0000, Nigel Swinson wrote:
> > I've been using phpxml the xpath.class.php but only to read wml file.
> >
> > Now I need to use it to add stuff in a xml file and I fail
> >
> > The file is very basic:
> > <connectes>
> > <user name="fooname" intime="footime"/>
> > <user name="fooname1" intime="footime2"/>
> > etc...
> > </connectes>
> >
> > Doing :
> >
> >
> > require_once 'lib/XPath.class.php';
> > $xPath = new XPath();
> > $attributes = array();
> > $xPath->reset();
> > $xPath->importFromFile('xml_files/connectes.xml');
> > $xPath->appendChild('/connectes[1]', 'user');
> > $attributes['name'] = $user_name; // => $user_name is a session variable
> > $attributes['intime'] = time();
> > $xPath->setAttributes('/connectes[1]/user[1]', $attributes);
> >
> > Nothing happen, I get no error but the xml file is left untouched
>
>Are you doing a ->exportToFile($filename)?  If you don't export, then
>changes will not persist to disk.
>
>Nigel
>
>
>
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