concatenating SimpleXMLElements

[nicholasstephan]

How do I concatenate two SimpleXMLElements? For example:

 

I've got:

 

<contacts />

 

as one SimpleXMLElement, called $contactList, and:

 

<contact>

    <name>Bob</name>

    <phone>4852342394</phone>

</contact>

 

as another called $bob.

 

Now I want to say $contactList->addChild("contact", $bob);, or something to that effect.

 

Apart from looping through $bob and addChilding each line individually the way they do in the docs, is there any way to accomplish this?

[rhodesa]

Not with SimpleXML...you have to use PHP5's DOM: http://us.php.net/manual/en/domnode.clonenode.php

[nicholasstephan]

really... so I have to: dom_import_simplexml, concat the trees, then simplexml_import_dom...

 

that just sucks...

 

 

PS: thanks for the quick reply.

 

 

 

[rhodesa]

or use DOM for the entire thing....