[PHP] Dom appendChild strips trailing text from within a node

[Eric Wiener]

I am trying to modify a node name and it mostly works, except that
appendChild seems to strip the text that FOLLOWS after a subnode.
Leading text and subnodes appear to be retained perfectly, just not text
trailing the subnode. I tried using cloneNode, but that discarded the
children even when I sent "true" as an argument.

 

$html='div1 bold1 italic1underline1 bold2
div2bold3 underline';

 

$dom = new DomDocument;

$dom->loadHTML($html);

 

$nodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName('b');

foreach ($nodes as $oldNode) {

$newNode = $dom->createElement('strong');

foreach($oldNode->childNodes as $thisOldNode) {

if ($thisOldNode->nodeName == '#text') {

$newNode->nodeValue .= $thisOldNode->nodeValue;

} else {

//  appendChild seems to cause the issue  //

$newNode->appendChild($thisOldNode);

}

}

$oldNode->parentNode->replaceChild($newNode, $oldNode);

}

//for debugging:

echo nl2br(htmlentities($html)) . '';

echo nl2br(htmlentities(str_replace(array('', '',
''), '', strstr($dom->saveXML(), '';

 

/*

Should return:

div1 bold1 italic1underline1 bold2
div2bold3 underline

 

Instead returns:

div1 bold1 italic1underline1
div2bold3 underline

*/

[PHP] How to clone an entire XML node including childnodes?

[Eric Wiener]

Basically I am trying to turn something like this:

 

Hello Joe, nice to meet you

 

into this:

 

Hello Joe, nice to meet you

 

by making a new node, inserting before the old node and then removing
the old node.

 

The problem is that I am populating the value of the new node with the
$oldNode->nodeValue property which apparently only includes text, not
child nodes, so I end up with:

 

Hello Joe, nice to meet you

 

How do you get the entire node value including any subnodes that may
appear within?

 

 

This is basically a variation on my previous post about how to
DomDocument->renameNode().

[PHP] Re: How can I DomDocument->renameNode?

[Eric Wiener]

Thanks for the reply, but the solution needs to be in PHP, not
JavaScript.

-Original Message-
From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 3:20 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [PHP] Re: How can I DomDocument->renameNode?

>I have tried making a new node, inserting it before the old node then
>removing the old node but I could not figure out how to get the
>nodeValue to include the child nodes, so they get stripped out leaving
>only the text value.


You might try something like this:

function replaceNode() {
var inChoice =
document.getElementById("grafCount").selectedIndex;
var inText = document.getElementById("textArea").value;

var newText = document.createTextNode(inText);
var newGraf = document.createElement("p");
newGraf.appendChild(newText);

var allGrafs = nodeChangingArea.getElementsByTagName("p");
var oldGraf = allGrafs.item(inChoice);

nodeChangingArea.replaceChild(newGraf,oldGraf);
}

  tedd
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[PHP] How can I DomDocument->renameNode?

[Eric Wiener]

Apparently renameNode is not yet implemented into Dom, so how can I
rename a node without affecting its value and/or child nodes?

 

I have tried making a new node, inserting it before the old node then
removing the old node but I could not figure out how to get the
nodeValue to include the child nodes, so they get stripped out leaving
only the text value.