& XSLT On Tuesday 13 June 2006 20:26, Mesdaq, Ali wrote:

Hi,

>  When using DOM

I assume you mean XML::DOM?

>  and getNodeName I get the name and "#text" returned. Why 
>  is #text returned 

It's because you *are* indeed accessing a text node, not a subelement (which 
is what you seem to expect). Unlike elements, text nodes do not have names, 
that is why this method of XML::DOM returns '#text' instead. Note that 
white-space also produces text nodes.

>  and how can I have only the name returned? 

You didn't indicate how your XML instance looks like. But assuming it looks 
something like

<doc> 
  <foo> ...</foo>
</doc> 
(e.g doc has - at least - 3 child nodes: a blank text node, element foo, and 
another blank text node with the newline following </foo> )

you can either use $root-> getElementByTagName('foo',0), or check the node type 
of each child node (e.g. with $kid-> isElementNode or $kid->getNodeType == 
ELEMENT_NODE) skipping non-element nodes where appropriate.

>  my $root = $doc->getDocumentElement();
>  my @installinfo = $root->getChildNodes();
>  foreach my $run (@installinfo)
>  {
>          print $run->getNodeName(), "\n";
>  }

-- Petr
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