Posted by Andrew C on 10/31/06 06:46

"Andy Hassall" <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:24:45 GMT, "Andrew C" <nonsense@totally.made.up>
> wrote:
>
>>I've encountered what seems to me to be something of an oddity while
>>playing
>>around with XML parsing in PHP, and I wondered if any of you might be able
>>to clear up my confusion...
>>
>>Here's a little code:
>>
>>$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
>>$xmlDoc->load('widget_data.xml');
>>$widgets = $xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('widget');
>>
>>My understanding was that '$widgets' is an array of elements,
>
> Nope - it's a DOMNodeList object, that has support for PHP5 iterators, so
> you
> can use it in a foreach loop.

Thanks. That's my missing piece. I have quite a bit of experience of PHP
prior to 5, but I'm just feeling my way with some of the 5 stuff. :-)

A.

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