There's a bug (similar reported 3 years ago as #28473 but tagged as "bogus" by lazy developer) in this function. When you eg. create own DOMElement class that have some properties and then try to set those properties on several nodes, only value set on the last node will be available.
<?php
class test extends DOMElement {
public $prop;
}
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->registerNodeClass('DOMElement','test');
$doc->loadXML('<root><t1></t1><t2></t2></root>');
$tn = $doc->childNodes->item(0)->childNodes->item(0);
$tn->prop = 'test1'; // Set on T1 tag
$tn = $doc->childNodes->item(0)->childNodes->item(1);
$tn->prop = 'test2'; // Set on T2 tag
echo $doc->childNodes->item(0)->childNodes->item(0)->prop."<br>";
echo $doc->childNodes->item(0)->childNodes->item(1)->prop."<br>";
?>
Result: <br>test2<br>
Should be: test1<br>test2<br>
That and fact that one can't get unique PHP object identifcator (not XML attribute) of every node (also DOMText or DOMAttr) makes this PHP's DOMXML just a simple XML traverse function and not (as should be) powerful way to do custom (and FAST - there is no problem in rewriting DOM tree to own objects but where's in that the sense of using DOM anyway?) work with XML documents.
DOM implementation in PHP sucks and it would be better to not provide one (and make users create their own) than include that crap (and make users to think that they are able to do something in notime while it takes week).
