DOMDocument thinks "<html></html>" has two childNodes?

**Andy Hassall** · Dec 1 '06, 10:25 PM

Re: DOMDocument thinks "<html& gt;</html>" has two childNodes?

On 1 Dec 2006 14:37:11 -0800, "yawnmoth" <terra1024@yaho o.comwrote:

>I'm trying to mess around with PHP5's DOM functions and have run into
>something that confuses me:
>
><?php
>$dom = new DOMDocument();
>$dom->loadHTML('<htm l></html>');
>
>echo $dom->childNodes->length;
>?>
>
>Why is the output 2? Shouldn't it be 1?

<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML('<htm l></html>');

print get_class($dom->childNodes->item(0)) . "<br>";
print get_class($dom->childNodes->item(1)) . "<br>";

print htmlspecialchar s($dom->saveHTML());
?>

DOMDocumentType
DOMElement
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"<html ></html>

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DOMDocument thinks "<html></html>" has two childNodes?

DOMDocument thinks "<html></html>" has two childNodes?

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