Insert Element into XML doc

[waseem]

Hi

This is my first post on this board...

I am doing some work with XML..... I need to add some elements INTO the document and i am struggling

Here is an example of what the XML looks like (note: this is one part of the full doc)

<product>
<id>99</id>
<name>XXXXX</name>
<rate>
<id>55</id>
<price>55.00</price>
</rate>
<rate>
<id>44</id>
<price>333.00</price>
</rate>
</product>

the code loops around and outputs the "rate" nodes and its values onto the price page, I now need it to add X number of blank "rate" nodes to the doc so the code will output empty stuff , the whys and wheres etc are not important.

I tried the below:

 $prod_xml = $prod->asXML();
	  $dom = new DOMDocument();
	  $dom->loadXML($prod->asXML());
	  $element = $dom->createElement("rate");
	  $dom->appendChild($element);
	  $prod_new =   $dom->saveXML();

However I got the following

.......
</product>
<rate></rate>

I need the empty rate to be inside the product node , and I am unsure how to do it ....

I hope this makes sense ...

[Installer]

This should do it:

$dom->getElementsByTagName('product')->item(0)->appendChild($element);