Posted by Kimmo Laine on 05/16/06 16:02

"Erwin Moller"
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> r_topor@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> As of PHP 5.1, why aren't there functions that return a node's
>> children, a node's first/last/nth child, a node's parent/previous
>> sibling/next sibling, etc., as in the DOM specification? How are you
>> currently meant to traverse a DOM tree without these functions? Or
>> perhaps they exist somewhere in the documentation, but not under the
>> list of DOM functions - if so, where are they?
>>
>> Rodney
>
> Hi Rodney,
>
> That is like asking: "Where are the rocket blueprints for the Saturn5 in
> PHP?"
>
> PHP is executed at the server, and returns a response, which can be HTML.
> If you want to use DOM-specific functionality, this is executed by the
> browser that receives the HTML produced by PHP.
>
> PHP is completely out-of-touch with the HTML it delivered.
>
> You need Javascript to access DOM in a browser.

While I agree with the fact that the question was a bit odd, I think it
could actually mean another DOM tree, such as an XML DOM instead of HTML.
Perhaps the original poster is referring to some XML parser, who knows.
Point is that HTML isn't the only possibility here.

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