xml node content.. or somethign!

[dumdumdaniel]

hey,

i'm in the process of writing a wrapper to handle the xml function for my project. the function does everything i need it to, except for one thing that i cant seem to figure out without creating another object, which i dont want to do if i dont have to!

here is da code:

((within class))
...
public function ern_xml_get_atts( $file = null, $path = null, $conditions = null, $attributes = null, $returncontent = false )
	{

	//array to build and return to caller
	$return = array();

	//string to build the query from
	$string = '';

	//see if the file or path atts are null
	if ( $file == null || $path == null )
	{
		return false;
	}

	//add xml path to the string
	$string = $path;

	//add conditions if specified
	if ( $conditions != null )
	{
		$string .= '[@'.$conditions.']';
	}

	//lets see here
	echo $string;

	//see if the xml file we want to query has been loaded	
	if ( isset($this->xml_files_xpath[$file]) )
	{
		$nodeList = $this->xml_files_xpath[$file]->query($string);

		//see for attributes to get
		if (strlen($attributes) != 0)
		{
			//yeah, so explode into an array
			$attributes = explode(',',$attributes);
		}



		$i = 0;
		while ( $node = $nodeList->item($i) )
		{
			//***********
			//**here is the issue
			if ($returncontent == true)
			{
				$return[$i]['content'] = $node->content;
			}
			//***********
			//**here is the issue

			for ($x=0;$x<=count($attributes)-1;$x++)
			{

				$tmp = $node->getAttribute($attributes[$x]);
				$return[$i][$attributes[$x]] = $tmp;
				echo '['.$tmp.']';
			}
			echo count($attributes);
			$i++;
			echo "<br><br><br>";
		}

		//no results whatsoever
		if ($i == 0)
		{
			return false;
		}

	}

	return $return;
}
(())
...

$ret = $xml->ern_xml_get_atts($file,'/users/user', 'uname="user2"', 'password,email', true);

say this is some xml that we're working with:

<users>
	<user uname="user1" password="password1" email="[e-mail]" />
	<user uname="user2" password="password2" email="[e-mail]">test content</user>
	<user uname="user3" password="password3" email="[e-mail]" />
</users>

this function returns an array with the specified attribrutes happily. the thing i'm having trouble with is returning content!

currently the function returns the array:

Array
(

[0] => Array
    (
        [content] => 
        [password] => password2
        [email ] => [email ][e-mail]
    )

)

or something there abouts! =]

now i kno that $node->content won't return anythign at all... but thats just so you konw what i wanna do! i managed to get the functionality that i want by creating new dom objects and stuff, but is there a way to get the user2 content between the tags just from the node list??

sorry if i've explained it bad!

thanks a bunch!