From: jim-bugs dot php dot net at jimdabell dot com
Operating system: FreeBSD
PHP version: 5.0.0
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: SimpleXML additions
Description:
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Right now, I don't think it's possible to retrieve the element type name
of a simplexml_element instance. A getElementTypeName() method would be
useful.
It would also be useful to have an easier way of retrieving the XML
language information, as described in the XML 1.0 specification.
Reproduce code:
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Right now I am using a helper function like this to get xml:lang
attributes:
function getLanguage($element)
{
/* Returns the value of any xml:lang attribute when passed an element or
null if there isn't one. */
$language = null;
foreach($element->attributes('http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace') as
$attributeName => $attribute) {
if ($attributeName == 'lang') {
$language = (string)$attribute;
}
}
return $language;
}
Obviously, that's a little unwieldy, and since the xml:lang attribute is
defined in the XML 1.0 specification, it would be nice to have better
support for it in PHP. Right now, as long as they are in the default
namespace, it's much easier to get information about arbitrary, undefined
attributes than it is about XML 1.0 standard attributes!
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