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::compareDocumentPosition(DOMNode $other): int

public DOMNode::contains(DOMNode|DOMNameSpaceNode|null $other): bool

public DOMNode::getLineNo(): int

public DOMNode::getNodePath(): ?string

public DOMNode::getRootNode(?array $options = null): DOMNode

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::isEqualNode(?DOMNode $otherNode): 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

public DOMNode::__sleep(): array

public DOMNode::__wakeup(): void

}

Properties

childElementCount: The number of child elements.
firstElementChild: First child element or null.
lastElementChild: Last child element or null.
nextElementSibling: The next sibling element or null.
previousElementSibling: The previous sibling element or null.
schemaTypeInfo: Not implemented yet, always return null
tagName: The element name
className: A string representing the classes of the element separated by spaces.
id: Reflects the element ID through the "id" attribute.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	The `firstElementChild`, `lastElementChild`, `childElementCount`, `previousElementSibling`, and `nextElementSibling` properties have been added.
8.0.0	DOMElement implements DOMParentNode and DOMChildNode now.

Notes

Note:
The DOM extension uses UTF-8 encoding. Use mb_convert_encoding(), UConverter::transcode(), or iconv() to handle other encodings.

DOMElement::after — Adds nodes after the element
DOMElement::append — Appends nodes after the last child node
DOMElement::before — Adds nodes before the element
DOMElement::__construct — Creates a new DOMElement object
DOMElement::getAttribute — Returns value of attribute
DOMElement::getAttributeNames — Get attribute names
DOMElement::getAttributeNode — Returns attribute node
DOMElement::getAttributeNodeNS — Returns attribute node
DOMElement::getAttributeNS — Returns value of attribute
DOMElement::getElementsByTagName — Gets elements by tagname
DOMElement::getElementsByTagNameNS — Get elements by namespaceURI and localName
DOMElement::hasAttribute — Checks to see if attribute exists
DOMElement::hasAttributeNS — Checks to see if attribute exists
DOMElement::insertAdjacentElement — Insert adjacent element
DOMElement::insertAdjacentText — Insert adjacent text
DOMElement::prepend — Prepends nodes before the first child node
DOMElement::remove — Removes the element
DOMElement::removeAttribute — Removes attribute
DOMElement::removeAttributeNode — Removes attribute
DOMElement::removeAttributeNS — Removes attribute
DOMElement::replaceChildren — Replace children in element
DOMElement::replaceWith — Replaces the element with new nodes
DOMElement::setAttribute — Adds new or modifies existing attribute
DOMElement::setAttributeNode — Adds new attribute node to element
DOMElement::setAttributeNodeNS — Adds new attribute node to element
DOMElement::setAttributeNS — Adds new attribute
DOMElement::setIdAttribute — Declares the attribute specified by name to be of type ID
DOMElement::setIdAttributeNode — Declares the attribute specified by node to be of type ID
DOMElement::setIdAttributeNS — Declares the attribute specified by local name and namespace URI to be of type ID
DOMElement::toggleAttribute — Toggle attribute

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j DOT wagner ( AT ) medieninnovation.com ¶

16 years ago

Caveat!
It took me almost an hour to figure this out, so I hope it saves at least one of you some time.

If you want to debug your DOM tree and try var_dump() or similar you will be fooled into thinking the DOMElement that you are looking at is empty, because var_dump() says: object(DOMElement)#1 (0) { } 

After much debugging I found out that all DOM objects are invisible to var_dump() and print_r(), my guess is because they are C objects and not PHP objects. So I tried saveXML(), which works fine on DOMDocument, but is not implemented on DOMElement.

The solution is simple (if you know it):
$xml = $domElement->ownerDocument->saveXML($domElement);

This will give you an XML representation of $domElement.

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Pinochet ¶

16 years ago

Hi to get the value of DOMElement just get the nodeValue public parameter (it is inherited from DOMNode):
<?php 
echo $domElement->nodeValue; 
?>
Everything is obvious if you now about this thing ;-)

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Janne Enberg ¶

11 years ago

This page doesn't list the inherited properties from DOMNode, e.g. the quite important textContent property. It would be immensely helpful if it would list those as well.

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dpetroff ( at ) gmail.com ¶

14 years ago

Hi!



Combining all th comments, the easiest way to get inner HTML of the node is to use this function:



<?php

function get_inner_html( $node ) {

    $innerHTML= '';

    $children = $node->childNodes;

    foreach ($children as $child) {

        $innerHTML .= $child->ownerDocument->saveXML( $child );

    }



    return $innerHTML;

}

?>

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Daniel Morlock ¶

15 years ago

It would be nice to have a function which converts a document/node/element into a string. 

Anyways, I use the following code snippet to get the innerHTML value of a DOMNode:

<?php
function getInnerHTML($Node)
{
     $Body = $Node->ownerDocument->documentElement->firstChild->firstChild;
     $Document = new DOMDocument();     
     $Document->appendChild($Document->importNode($Body,true));
     return $Document->saveHTML();
}
?>

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felix dot klee at inka dot de ¶

11 years ago

How to rename an element and preserve attributes:

<?php

// Changes the name of element $element to $newName.
function renameElement($element, $newName) {
  $newElement = $element->ownerDocument->createElement($newName);
  $parentElement = $element->parentNode;
  $parentElement->insertBefore($newElement, $element);

  $childNodes = $element->childNodes;
  while ($childNodes->length > 0) {
    $newElement->appendChild($childNodes->item(0));
  }

  $attributes = $element->attributes;
  while ($attributes->length > 0) {
    $attribute = $attributes->item(0);
    if (!is_null($attribute->namespaceURI)) {
      $newElement->setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/',
                                  'xmlns:'.$attribute->prefix,
                                  $attribute->namespaceURI);
    }
    $newElement->setAttributeNode($attribute);
  }

  $parentElement->removeChild($element);
}
 
function prettyPrint($d) {
  $d->formatOutput = true;
  echo '<pre>'.htmlspecialchars($d->saveXML()).'</pre>';
}

$d = new DOMDocument( '1.0' );
$d->loadXML('<?xml version="1.0"?>
<library>
  <data a:foo="1" x="bar" xmlns:a="http://example.com/a">
    <invite>
      <username>jmansa</username>
      <userid>1</userid>
    </invite>
    <update>1</update>
  </data>
</library>');

$xpath = new DOMXPath($d);
$elements = $xpath->query('/library/data');
if ($elements->length == 1) {
  $element = $elements->item(0);
  renameElement($element, 'invites');
}

prettyPrint($d);

?>

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patrick smith ¶

16 years ago

Although it may be preferable to use the dom to manipulate elements, sometimes it's useful to actually get the innerHTML from a document element (e.g. to load into a client-side editor).



To get the innerHTML of a specific element ($elem_id) in a specific html file ($filepath):



<?php

$innerHTML = '';

$doc = new DOMDocument();

$doc->loadHTMLFile($filepath);    

$elem = $doc->getElementById($elem_id);



// loop through all childNodes, getting html        

$children = $elem->childNodes;

foreach ($children as $child) {

    $tmp_doc = new DOMDocument();

    $tmp_doc->appendChild($tmp_doc->importNode($child,true));        

    $innerHTML .= $tmp_doc->saveHTML();

}

?>

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ae.fxx ¶

16 years ago

Hi there.

Remember to append a DOMNode (or any of its descendants) to a DOMDocument __BEFORE__ you try to append a child to it.

I don't know why it has to be this way but it can't be done without it.

bye

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nawaman at gmail dot com ¶

15 years ago

The following code shows can text-only content be extracted from a document.



<?php

function getTextFromNode($Node, $Text = "") {

    if ($Node->tagName == null)

        return $Text.$Node->textContent;



    $Node = $Node->firstChild;

    if ($Node != null)

        $Text = getTextFromNode($Node, $Text);



    while($Node->nextSibling != null) {

        $Text = getTextFromNode($Node->nextSibling, $Text);

        $Node = $Node->nextSibling;

    }

    return $Text;

}



function getTextFromDocument($DOMDoc) {

    return getTextFromNode($DOMDoc->documentElement);

}



$Doc = new DOMDocument();

$Doc->loadHTMLFile("Test.html");

echo getTextFromDocument($Doc)."\n";

?>

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johnny ¶

10 years ago

Get html of a node
 $html .= $dom->saveHTML($node);

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Anonymous ¶

13 years ago

you can use DOMNode::nodeValue
DOMElement inherits this public property.

$elem->nodeValue

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loopduplicate at burningtoken dot com ¶

13 years ago

This works perfect for me as well:



<?php $xml = $domElement->ownerDocument->saveXML($domElement); ?>

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Severin ¶

16 years ago

I wanted to find similar Elements - thats why I built an Xpath-String like this - maybe somebody needs it... its not very pretty - but neither is domdocument :)



<?php



$dom->load($xmlFile))



$xpathQuery = '//*';

$xmlNodes = $xpath->query($xpathQuery);

        

$pathlist = array();

$attrlist = array();

foreach ($xmlNodes as $node) {



  $depth = $this->_getDomDepth($node);   //get Path-Depth (for array key)

  $pathlist[$depth] = $node->tagName;     // tagname

          

  $attrs = $node->attributes;

  $attr='';

  $a=0;

  foreach ($attrs as $attrName => $attrNode)  // attributes

            {

              if ($attrName !='reg')

              {

                if ($a++!=0) $attr .= ' and ';

                $attr .= '@'.$attrName.'='."'".$attrNode->value."'";

              }

            }

          

          $attrlist[$depth] = $attr?'['.$attr.']':'';

          

          $path = ''; for ($i=0;$i<=$depth;$i++) $path .= '/'.$pathlist[$i].$attrlist[$i];  // the xpath of the actual Element



    // ... now you can go on and user $path to find similar elements

    }

  }

}



 private function _getDomDepth(DomNode $node)

   {

     $r = -2;

     while ($node) {

       $r++;  

       $node = $node->parentNode;

     } 

     return  $r;

   }

?>

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