reading lastchild attribute in XML?

[rune_sm]

Hey everyone

I have this code:

<root>
<news>
<item id="1" headline="I am a headline">
<item id="2" headline="I am also a headline">
<item id="3" headline="again, I'm a headline">
</news>
</root>

I want to use DOM to read the id-attribute of the last child.

I want to do kind of this:
$id = $dom->documentElement->getElementsByTagName('news')->lastChild->getAttribute("id");

It doesn't work... How do I do that?

• Rune

[Jasp182]

If you're using the DomDocument object, the problem might be the way you're spelling the function. I found this on php.net ([man]domnode-last-child[/man]), and it says to spell it as last_child instead of lastChild.

[ahundiak]

For PHP 4 you need to break this up after the method call.
$news = $dom->documentElement->getElementsByTagName('news');
$id = $news->lastChild->getAttribute("id");