On 25 July 2011 13:47, Richard Quadling <rquadl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I've got 2 XML documents (one from a URL and another via MS SQL Server).
>
> The structure of these documents is the same, with just a difference
> in attribute to identify things (the 'data' is different but the
> variable's name attribute is the key here).
>
> <data>
>  <variable name="var_name_x">
>  <row>
>   <column>data</column>
>   ...
>  </row.
>  ...
>  </variable>
> </data>
>
> I need to merge both documents so that the variable node of each
> document exists in a new document ...
>
> <data>
>  <variable name="var_name_x">
>  ...
>  </variable>
>  <variable name="var_name_y">
>  ...
>  </variable>
> </data>
>
> I know I can do this with string manipulation (and that's what I've
> done), but I'd like to use a more appropriate mechanism (part learning
> and part keeping the code tidy).
>
> I suspect SimpleXMLElement may not be the right tool.
>
> Richard.

Got it working when I finally discovered DOMDocument->importNode().
Allows the copying of a node from one DOM to another.

Easy.

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