Posted by Mans on 10/30/06 15:23

Hey Friend,

Its working now...THANKS A LOT FRIEND...
Again thanks for your help and reply.

Regards,
Manan Vyas

Andy Hassall wrote:

> On 30 Oct 2006 04:45:50 -0800, mananvyas@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >I am working on PHP5 and all the xmldom related extensions are
> >installed and on properly.
> >I am trying to execute following code but some how not working.
> >
> >
> > $doc = new DomDocument();
> > $doc->validateOnParse = true;
> > $doc->load('abc.xml');
> > //xml file contains one element with this id
> > $elem = $doc->getElementById( 'eee' );
> >
> > if(is_null($elem)) {
> > echo "<br>IT IS NULL";
> > }
> > else {
> > echo "<br>NOT NULL.";
> > }
> >
> >The output shows me null every time...
> >Why is that?????
>
> The manual hints towards why:
>
> "According to the DOM standard this requires a DTD which defines the attribute
> ID to be of type ID. You need to validate your document with
> DOMDocument->validate() or DOMDocument->validateOnParse before using this
> function."
>
> You've set validateOnParse, but you haven't posted the contents of abc.xml.
>
> Does it include a DTD that defines ID?
>
> There is a link in the user contributed notes to the following site that
> explains all:
>
> http://blog.bitflux.ch/wiki/GetElementById_Pitfalls
>
> --
> Andy Hassall :: andy@andyh.co.uk :: http://www.andyh.co.uk
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