Re: [PHP-DEV] DOMNode::getAttribute()

2011-06-03 Thread David Zülke
On 03.06.2011, at 22:38, Matt Pelmear wrote: > Hello, > > I discovered today that the DOMNode::getAttribute() function (which is > undocumented on the php site) It's DOMElement::getAttribute()... > returns an empty string if the requested > attribute doesn't exist in the node. Yes, but that's

Re: [PHP-DEV] DOMNode::getAttribute()

2011-06-03 Thread Scott MacVicar
On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Matt Pelmear wrote: > Hello, > > I discovered today that the DOMNode::getAttribute() function (which is > undocumented on the php site) returns an empty string if the requested > attribute doesn't exist in the node. > > From the source: > if (value == NULL) { >

Re: [PHP-DEV] DOMNode::getAttribute()

2011-06-03 Thread Philip Olson
> Does anyone know of a particular reason it is not documented? > (I'd be happy to document and provide the ridiculously simple patch of > returning NULL...) Greetings Matt, Documenting DOM is messy/tricky (and underdocumented), but: - http://php.net/domelement.getattribute Here's one option

[PHP-DEV] DOMNode::getAttribute()

2011-06-03 Thread Matt Pelmear
Hello, I discovered today that the DOMNode::getAttribute() function (which is undocumented on the php site) returns an empty string if the requested attribute doesn't exist in the node. >From the source: if (value == NULL) { RETURN_EMPTY_STRING(); } else {