I’m trying to write a function that will receive a DOMElement object, perform some seeking operations within its descendants and then return the DOMElement corresponding to the wanted parameters.

Shortened version:

function untilUHitText($domElement){
    echo "<br>before anything happens<br>";
    var_dump($domElement);
    if($domElement->tagName == "Text" || $domElement->childElementCount == 0){
        return $domElement;}
}

The var_dump will show the passed DOMElement without any issue, but the returned $domElement is always null, even though I do not perform any operations on it.

I have tried changing the code within the function, but as soon as I perform any check on $domElement, it just returns a null value.