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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+  <refentry id='function.simplexml-import-dom'>
+   <refnamediv>
+    <refname>simplexml_import_dom</refname>
+    <refpurpose>
+     Get a <literal>simplexml_element</literal> object from a
+     DOM node.
+    </refpurpose>
+   </refnamediv>
+   <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+    <methodsynopsis>
+     <type>object simplexml_element</type><methodname>simplexml_load_dom</methodname>
+     <methodparam><type>domNode</type><parameter>node</parameter></methodparam>
+    </methodsynopsis>
+    <para>
+     <!-- same with this link -->
+     This function takes a node of a <link linkend="ref.domxml">DOM</link>
+     document and makes it into a SimpleXML node. This new object can
+     then be used as a native SimpleXML element. If any errors occur, 
+     it returns &false;.
+    </para>
+    <!-- php5 DOM isn't documented; this depends on it... :| -->
+    <example>
+     <title>Import DOM</title>
+     <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+$dom = new domDocument;
+$dom->loadXML('<books><book><title>blah</title></book></books>');
+if (!$dom) {
+    echo 'Error while parsing the document';
+    exit;
+}
+
+$s = simplexml_import_dom($dom);
+
+echo $s->book[0]->title; // blah
+?>
+]]>
+     </programlisting>
+    </example>
+   </refsect1>
+  </refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"../../../../manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->