Posted by Sean Quinn on 11/13/07 13:35

On Nov 13, 1:16 am, taps128 <nstje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sean Quinn wrote:
> > I realize what the documentation says, but when creating both a new
> > DOMElement object, or extending the DOMElement object I don't have
> > access to any DOMNode methods in PHP 5.2.0.
> > e.g.
>
> > class HtmlElement extends DOMElement
> > {
> > ...
> > }
>
> > $htmlElement = new HtmlElement();
> > $htmlElement->appendChild(...);
>
> > Will not work because the method is supposedly undefined. In
> > addition:
>
> > $domEl = new DOMElement();
> > $domEl->appendChild(...);
>
> > ... doesn't seem to work either. I've looked through several sources
> > online and offline which all seem to indicate that calls to DOMNode
> > methods should be working, but they aren't for me. Am I going crazy?
> > Am I doing something wrong? Anyone please help! Thanks!
>
> You can't append an child to an initialized DOMElement until it's
> appended to the DOMDocument.
> $dom=new DOMDocument();
> $ele=new DOMElement('p');
> $dom->appendChild($ele);
> $ele2=new DOMELement('br');
> $ele->appendChild($ele2);

How does that functionality even work though--it doesn't seem to make
sense from a structure point of view. I understand that upon appending
an element to a DOMDocument it probably initializes certain properties
within the DOMElement, but shouldn't I still be able to see those
properties and/or methods as available before I even append it to a
DOMDocument? I'm not even able to see the method appendChild() under
DOMElement (at least before appending the DOMElement to a DOMDocument,
which I have yet to experiment with).

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