The DOMDocument class

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

Represents an entire HTML or XML document; serves as the root of the document tree.

Class synopsis

class DOMDocument extends DOMNode {
/* Properties */
public readonly string $actualEncoding;
public readonly DOMConfiguration $config;
public readonly DOMDocumentType $doctype;
public readonly ?DOMElement $documentElement;
public ?string $documentURI;
public string $encoding;
public bool $formatOutput;
public bool $preserveWhiteSpace = true;
public bool $recover;
public bool $resolveExternals;
public bool $standalone;
public bool $strictErrorChecking = true;
public bool $substituteEntities;
public bool $validateOnParse = false;
public string $version;
public readonly ?string $xmlEncoding;
public bool $xmlStandalone;
public string $xmlVersion;
/* Inherited properties */
public readonly string $nodeName;
public ?string $nodeValue;
public readonly int $nodeType;
public readonly ?DOMNode $parentNode;
public readonly DOMNodeList $childNodes;
public readonly ?DOMNode $firstChild;
public readonly ?DOMNode $lastChild;
public readonly ?DOMNode $previousSibling;
public readonly ?DOMNode $nextSibling;
public readonly ?DOMNamedNodeMap $attributes;
public readonly ?DOMDocument $ownerDocument;
public readonly ?string $namespaceURI;
public string $prefix;
public readonly ?string $localName;
public readonly ?string $baseURI;
public string $textContent;
/* Methods */
public __construct(string $version = "1.0", string $encoding = "")
public createAttribute(string $localName): DOMAttr|false
public createAttributeNS(?string $namespace, string $qualifiedName): DOMAttr|false
public createCDATASection(string $data): DOMCdataSection|false
public createComment(string $data): DOMComment
public createElement(string $localName, string $value = ""): DOMElement|false
public createElementNS(?string $namespace, string $qualifiedName, string $value = ""): DOMElement|false
public createEntityReference(string $name): DOMEntityReference|false
public createProcessingInstruction(string $target, string $data = ""): DOMProcessingInstruction|false
public createTextNode(string $data): DOMText
public getElementById(string $elementId): ?DOMElement
public getElementsByTagName(string $qualifiedName): DOMNodeList
public getElementsByTagNameNS(?string $namespace, string $localName): DOMNodeList
public importNode(DOMNode $node, bool $deep = false): DOMNode|false
public load(string $filename, int $options = 0): DOMDocument|bool
public loadHTML(string $source, int $options = 0): DOMDocument|bool
public loadHTMLFile(string $filename, int $options = 0): DOMDocument|bool
public loadXML(string $source, int $options = 0): DOMDocument|bool
public normalizeDocument(): void
public registerNodeClass(string $baseClass, ?string $extendedClass): bool
public relaxNGValidate(string $filename): bool
public relaxNGValidateSource(string $source): bool
public save(string $filename, int $options = 0): int|false
public saveHTML(?DOMNode $node = null): string|false
public saveHTMLFile(string $filename): int|false
public saveXML(?DOMNode $node = null, int $options = 0): string|false
public schemaValidate(string $filename, int $flags = 0): bool
public schemaValidateSource(string $source, int $flags = 0): bool
public validate(): bool
public xinclude(int $options = 0): int|false
/* Inherited methods */
public DOMNode::appendChild(DOMNode $node): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::C14N(
    bool $exclusive = false,
    bool $withComments = false,
    ?array $xpath = null,
    ?array $nsPrefixes = null
): string|false
public DOMNode::C14NFile(
    string $uri,
    bool $exclusive = false,
    bool $withComments = false,
    ?array $xpath = null,
    ?array $nsPrefixes = null
): int|false
public DOMNode::cloneNode(bool $deep = false): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::getLineNo(): int
public DOMNode::getNodePath(): ?string
public DOMNode::hasAttributes(): bool
public DOMNode::hasChildNodes(): bool
public DOMNode::insertBefore(DOMNode $node, ?DOMNode $child = null): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::isDefaultNamespace(string $namespace): bool
public DOMNode::isSameNode(DOMNode $otherNode): bool
public DOMNode::isSupported(string $feature, string $version): bool
public DOMNode::lookupNamespaceUri(string $prefix): string
public DOMNode::lookupPrefix(string $namespace): ?string
public DOMNode::normalize(): void
public DOMNode::removeChild(DOMNode $child): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::replaceChild(DOMNode $node, DOMNode $child): DOMNode|false
}

Properties

actualEncoding

Deprecated. Actual encoding of the document, is a readonly equivalent to encoding.

config

Deprecated. Configuration used when DOMDocument::normalizeDocument() is invoked.

doctype

The Document Type Declaration associated with this document.

documentElement

The DOMElement object that is the first document element. If not found, this evaluates to null.

documentURI

The location of the document or null if undefined.

encoding

Encoding of the document, as specified by the XML declaration. This attribute is not present in the final DOM Level 3 specification, but is the only way of manipulating XML document encoding in this implementation.

formatOutput

Nicely formats output with indentation and extra space. This has no effect if the document was loaded with preserveWhitespace enabled.

implementation

The DOMImplementation object that handles this document.

preserveWhiteSpace

Do not remove redundant white space. Default to true. Setting this to false has the same effect as passing LIBXML_NOBLANKS as option to DOMDocument::load() etc.

recover

Proprietary. Enables recovery mode, i.e. trying to parse non-well formed documents. This attribute is not part of the DOM specification and is specific to libxml.

resolveExternals

Set it to true to load external entities from a doctype declaration. This is useful for including character entities in your XML document.

standalone

Deprecated. Whether or not the document is standalone, as specified by the XML declaration, corresponds to xmlStandalone.

strictErrorChecking

Throws DOMException on errors. Default to true.

substituteEntities

Proprietary. Whether or not to substitute entities. This attribute is not part of the DOM specification and is specific to libxml.

Caution

Enabling entity substitution may facilitate XML External Entity (XXE) attacks.

validateOnParse

Loads and validates against the DTD. Default to false.

version

Deprecated. Version of XML, corresponds to xmlVersion.

xmlEncoding

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the encoding of this document. This is null when unspecified or when it is not known, such as when the Document was created in memory.

xmlStandalone

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone. This is false when unspecified.

xmlVersion

An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document. If there is no declaration and if this document supports the "XML" feature, the value is "1.0".

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 The unimplemented method DOMDocument::renameNode() has been removed.

Notes

Note:

The DOM extension uses UTF-8 encoding. Use utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() to work with texts in ISO-8859-1 encoding or iconv for other encodings.

Note:

When using json_encode() on a DOMDocument object the result will be that of encoding an empty object.

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