Unable to find element using child selector '>'

[FrancisBaileyH]

Firstly, let me say thanks for maintaining such a great library, it has been exceptionally useful in my project. But on to the issue

Using the following code:

$dom->find('div > ul');

Results in an empty set, despite the html being valid. It seems the find() function does not support child selectors. I added in a unit test to SelectorTest.php to confirm the results.

The test code:

    public function testFindClassWithChildSelector() {

        $root   = new HtmlNode(new Tag('root'));
        $parent = new HtmlNode(new Tag('div'));
        $child1 = new HtmlNode(new Tag('ul'));  
        $root->addChild($parent);
        $parent->addChild($child1);

        $selector = new Selector('div > ul');
        $this->assertEquals(1, count($selector->find($root)));
    }

The results:

I'm going to see if I can't add the functionality myself. However, given your familiarity with the library you may be able to make a quick change to fix this.

[tegansnyder]

@FrancisBaileyH did you ever add this functionality. I've been getting around this by loading the innerHtml of the parent back into a dom and traversing. I wrote a little function that takes an array of dom values to traverse and does this.

[FrancisBaileyH]

Hi @tegansnyder, I ended up using Symfony's DomCrawler and CssSelector components, which allow for similar jQuery DOM traversals. I had to drop use of this library, as modifying the functions was going to be too time consuming.