get_element_by_id()

[simulant]

I am using the DOM XML functions in PHP 4.2.2, and I have not had any luck returning a DOMElement object using the get_element_by_id() function.

If I have some XML in "stuff.xml":

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<messages>
<error id="E001">content</error>
</messages>

Then shouldn't the following code return the "error" node as a DOMElement object??

$doc = domxml_open_file("stuff.xml");
$node = $doc->get_element_by_id("E001");

This is actually not returning ANYTHING!

I know that I can use XPath Contexts, using the XPath expression, "//*[@id='E001']", and I have gotten it to work this way, but it would just be nice to retrieve elements with the get_element_by_id() function.

Any ideas??

Thanks.

• TIM