Hello As far as I rememeber according to DOM Level 2 Elementnodes contain Attributenodes but the Attributenode has no association with its Elementnode meaning you can't tell from an Attributenode which Elementnode it belongs to unless you remember it in your code. Thus an Attributenode is not part of the Domtree as an Elementnode and will not be returned as a Child of that Node. The only way to retrieve Attributenodes is by going throught the Elementnode and retrieving the attributes explicitly. In other words Attributenodes are special nodes which do not get nested in the DOMtree as children of their corresponding Elementnode. This leaves space for optimizing the DOMTree by inserting a single attributenode for multiple Elementnodes. (At least that is what I'm guessing...)
Please correct me if I'm mistaken Stefan
