DOM XML (PHP 4) Functions
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DomNode->node_type

(PHP 4 >= 4.1.0)

DomNode->node_type Returns type of node

Description

int DomNode->node_type ( void )

Returns the type of the node. All possible types are listed in the table in the introduction.

<?php

include 'example.inc';

$dom domxml_open_mem($xmlstr);

$chapter $dom->document_element();

// Let's see the elements contained in chapter
foreach($chapter->child_nodes() as $node) {
  if (
$node->node_type() == XML_ELEMENT_NODE) {
    echo 
$node->node_name() . "\n";
  }
}

?>

The above example will output:

title
para

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