From 2346ff037b4319b1d2966f772433df3126e9f76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Sesek <rsesek@bluestatic.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:44:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added unify_node()

---
 xml.php | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xml.php b/xml.php
index 27c627f..65d153e 100644
--- a/xml.php
+++ b/xml.php
@@ -308,6 +308,27 @@ class XML
 		// assign the attributes to the next newest node
 		$this->attribs =& $this->stack[ count($this->stack) - 1 ];
 	}
+	
+	// ###################################################################
+	/**
+	* Unless a node has multiple children, there will not be a numerical
+	* index for the child node. So this means that if you have variable
+	* XML structure with some of the same types of nodes having one children
+	* or multiple children, you'd have different things to parse. If
+	* you want the node unified (as in, all single-children would be indexed
+	* numerically, run this function on the node. It works on references.
+	*
+	* @access	 public
+	*
+	* @param	array	The node to int-index
+	*/
+	function unify_node(&$node)
+	{
+		if (!isset($node[0]))
+		{
+			$node = array($node);
+		}
+	}
 }
 
 /*=====================================================================*\
-- 
2.22.5