Only show top level node

calle81

Hi, I am using this code:

$description = $value->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue;

But it shows the node value not only from description but from all child nodes aswell. How can I fix this?

Weedpacket

It's not broken; usually you want the values from the descendants (consider any document that uses any sort of markup <tags> to demarcate something; leaving the values of the children out would mean you'd lose everything between those </tags>). Not to mention the fact that plain text gets its own node (so perhaps you want the value of that, and not the value of its parent element?)

calle81

No, the problem is the parent have the information I want, the other information from the child I can get separately... This is a small sample of the xml:

<game id="7006122" date="20091208" time="1230">
&#8722;
<description>
<category id="SOCMENINTINTU17" order="29500">Int. Friendlies U17</category>
Turkey - France<BR/><span>Under 17's</span>
</description>
<type id="0"/>
&#8722;
<alternatives>
<alternative odds="2.40" team="7143">1</alternative>
<alternative odds="3.05" team="7143">X</alternative>
<alternative odds="2.60" team="2100">2</alternative>
</alternatives>
</game>

As you see the description contains the team names and the category contains the league. I only want the teamnames. from the "description" tag. Is this possible?

calle81

I could of course use getElementsByTagName and get all the child nodes also but then I need a way to seperate the results so they don't look like they came from one node.

johanafm

Weedpacket;10935991 wrote:
Not to mention the fact that plain text gets its own node (so perhaps you want the value of that, and not the value of its parent element?)

Your guess is spot on. But perhaps someone could merge the threads

scrupul0us

i would use xpath instead and pull both the parent node and the 'category' node then use string ops to remove the category from the description