DOM child finding

[skrebbel]

Is there any faster/easier way of finding a child node of a certain
DOMNode object than doing something like

function getChildByTagna me($curnode, $name)
{
foreach($curnod e->childNodes as $node)
{
if($node->nodeName==$nam e)
{
return $node;
}
}
}

?

it seems fairly slow and cumbersome. i was thinking xpath, but i can
hardly imagine that to be a lot faster, with all the DOMXpath object
creation and all, though I didn't benchmark.

-egbert

[Sean]

Re: DOM child finding


"skrebbel" <e.pear.teeseli nk@student.appl e.tue.banana.nl wrote in message
news:op.tq95l61 r18tlcy@s011169 .mshome.net...
Is there any faster/easier way of finding a child node of a certain
DOMNode object than doing something like

function getChildByTagna me($curnode, $name)
{
foreach($curnod e->childNodes as $node)
{
if($node->nodeName==$nam e)
{
return $node;
}
}
}

?

it seems fairly slow and cumbersome. i was thinking xpath, but i can
hardly imagine that to be a lot faster, with all the DOMXpath object
creation and all, though I didn't benchmark.

-egbert




I would have thought that you could probably narrow it down with an XPATH
query, but without seeing the XML and what you're after, it's a little hard
to consider what you are looking for.

[skrebbel]

Re: DOM child finding

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:55:27 +0200, Sean
<sean.anderso n@[nospam]oakleafgroup.bi zwrote:

>
"skrebbel" <e.pear.teeseli nk@student.appl e.tue.banana.nl wrote in
message
news:op.tq95l61 r18tlcy@s011169 .mshome.net...
Is there any faster/easier way of finding a child node of a certain
DOMNode object than doing something like
>
function getChildByTagna me($curnode, $name)
{
foreach($curnod e->childNodes as $node)
{
if($node->nodeName==$nam e)
{
return $node;
}
}
}
>
?
>
it seems fairly slow and cumbersome. i was thinking xpath, but i can
hardly imagine that to be a lot faster, with all the DOMXpath object
creation and all, though I didn't benchmark.
>
-egbert
>
>
>
>
I would have thought that you could probably narrow it down with an XPATH
query, but without seeing the XML and what you're after, it's a little
hard
to consider what you are looking for.
>
>
>

What I'm after is a method that gets a child node of a certain "current
node" that has a certain name. It is for a general purpose solution I'm
making.

As an example, in

<books>
<book>
<title>Banana s, and how to peel them</title>
<author>John Doe</author>
<review>
<author>Perry White</author>
<title>New banana peeling book revolutionalise s world of banana
peeling</title>
</review>
</book>
</books>

if i have a DOMNode object $book that refers to the above book node, i'd
want the fastest way to get me a DOMNode object that refers to its title
child (but of course not to the review's title, which is what
$document->getElementsByT agName would give me).

With SimpleXML, I could of course just do $doc->books->book->title, but I
don't want to use SimpleXML because it is so awfully terrible at anything
other than reading out some data (try deleting a node or adding features,
for instance). So, what's the fastest/best/etc way to do it with DOM?

-egbert