Neither, actually. It returns all the elements (not necessarily all the nodes) that are descendants of the specified element. From the DOM spec: "A descendant node of any node A is any node below A in a tree model of a document, where "above" means "toward the root." So the list will include child elements and their children, recursively.
-----Original Message----- From: Ralph van Etten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: What does nodes does DOMElement::getElementsByTagName return? Hi, I have a question about DOMElement::getElementsByTagName("*"). Does this return a list with all nodes below the element including the children of the child nodes or just the child nodes ? I'm not sure how to interpret what it says in the documentation but I think it also returns the children of the child nodes. Is this correct ? Thanks, Ralph.
