I am sorry for getting impatient, but I truly believe that my original question was very reasonalble and relevant. If not, then it would help for someone to be clear about the problem. The very vague answers don't help me; I sure don't understand what the problem is.
If the "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" article is supposed to apply to the question in the other group, then I assume that the moderators would prefer that the replies to it be made in that group. I am sorry for replying in this group if the message I am replying to should have been in that group. So just to attempt to undestand the relevance of the "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" article, the following will attempt to get clarification. I think that simply posting a reference to the article is far too vague to be helpful. I did try to find an answer by reading the manual. I did try to find an answer by searching the Web. Is there a relevant FAQ that I don't know about? Is that what you are tryig to say? I did try to find an answer by inspection and experimentation. I don't know a skilled friend that can help, except I did post in other forums. Are you saying I should read the PHP source code instead of asking in the forums? I sure did try to choose the proper forum, and I asked what forum is proper. There are not relevant Web and IRC forums other than these, correct? I did try a couple of other PHP forums, if that is what you mean. Is there another forum that I am supposed to be using? Note I did ask where I should post the question to. I am using project mailing lists (newsgroups), right? I sure tried to use a meaningful, specific subject header! I tried to make it as easy as possible to reply with a solution. I provided a small self-contained peice of code that duplicated the problem. Did I not write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language? Is that the problem? Is my question in a format that is not easy to understand? I did not want to provide unnecessary and irrelevant information. Is my question imprecise or incomplete? Is my question too much? I did not say in my original question that I have a bug. I did not say that there is a bug; I said there might be a bug. If there is not a bug then why can't anyone provide a solution? Again, if there is not a bug, then what is the solution? Note that the PHP DOM extension is defined to implement the standard, so if it does not, then that could be considered to be a bug. I have seen questions from people that are convinced that something is a bug. In those situations, they don't describe the problem they are having well enough for others to help them solve the problem that is their problem. That is the problem with saying that there is a bug. I hope I did describe my problem in a manner that makes it possible to provide a solution to whatever I am doing wrong. Perhaps I should not have used the "bug" word. Is that why you refuse to help? What other homework should I have done? If there is something more I should have done, then perhaps I just need to know what it is. I tried to describe the problem as best I could. Did I not describe it well? Should I have not stated my guess, such as the possibility of a bug? Again, I think I was very explicit about the question. So again, I am sorry for becoming impatient, but instead of criticizing my impatience, if someone can simply answer the question in the same manner I would if I had the answer, then that is all I am asking for. If roles were reversed, I would sure consider the question to be a good question. "Dharana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > >> "Christian Stocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
