DOMNode::removeChild

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMNode::removeChild — Remove um filho da lista de filhos

Descrição

public DOMNode::removeChild(DOMNode $child): DOMNode|false

Esta função remove um filho da lista de filhos.

Parâmetros

child: O filho removido.

Valor Retornado

Se o filho puder ser removido, a função retorna o antigo filho ou false em caso de erro.

Erros/Exceções

DOM_NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Gerado se este nó for somente leitura.
DOM_NOT_FOUND_ERR: Gerado se child não for um filho deste nó.

Exemplos

O exemplo a seguir excluirá o elemento chapter do nosso documento XML.

Exemplo #1 Removendo um filho

<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load('book.xml');

$book = $doc->documentElement;

// recuperamos o capítulo e o removemos do livro
$chapter = $book->getElementsByTagName('chapter')->item(0);
$oldchapter = $book->removeChild($chapter);

echo $doc->saveXML();
?>

O exemplo acima produzirá:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<book id="listing">
 <title>My lists</title>

</book>

Veja Também

DOMChildNode::remove() - Remove o nó
DOMNode::appendChild() - Adiciona um novo filho ao final dos filhos
DOMNode::replaceChild() - Substitui um filho

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crazy888s at hotmail dot com ¶

15 years ago

You can't remove DOMNodes from a DOMNodeList as you're iterating over them in a foreach loop. For example...



<?php

$domNodeList = $domDocument->getElementsByTagname('p');

foreach ( $domNodeList as $domElement ) {

  //  ...do stuff with $domElement...

  $domElement->parentNode->removeChild($domElement);

}

?>



... will seemingly leave the internal iterator on the foreach out of wack and results will be quite strange. Though, making a queue of items to remove seems to work. For example...



<?php

$domNodeList = $domDocument->getElementsByTagname('p');

$domElemsToRemove = array();

foreach ( $domNodeList as $domElement ) {

  // ...do stuff with $domElement...

  $domElemsToRemove[] = $domElement;

}

foreach( $domElemsToRemove as $domElement ){

  $domElement->parentNode->removeChild($domElement);

}

?>

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blaine (at) blainegarrett (dot com) ¶

19 years ago

This might be obvious, but might help someone as well...



If you simply have a node that you need to remove (perhaps from an xpath) and don't know the parent node offhand (the examples seem to assume you have the parent in a variable), then you can do something easy like this...



$node->parentNode->removeChild($node);



parentNode is a scalar property of the Element.



Hope that helps.



--

Blaine Garrett

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Justin Sheckler ¶

15 years ago

These two functions might be helpful to anyone trying to delete a node and all of its children:



<?php

function deleteNode($node) {

    deleteChildren($node);

    $parent = $node->parentNode;

    $oldnode = $parent->removeChild($node);

}



function deleteChildren($node) {

    while (isset($node->firstChild)) {

        deleteChildren($node->firstChild);

        $node->removeChild($node->firstChild);

    }

}

?>

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vsematika at centrum dot cz ¶

19 years ago

For those who don't understand >sbeam at onsetcorps dot net on 02-Feb-2005 12:07< 'hack', here's a little discussion:



First but *wrong* try would be:

<?php

foreach ($parent->childNodes as $child) {

   $parent->removeChild($child);

?>

This doesn't work because DOM tree id modified on-the-fly and this confuses foreach loop.



The idea behind sbeam's trick is that after removing the first item in the first iteration, the second item in childNodes nodelist immediately becomes the first item. That's why we must _always_ remove the first child. Here's another implementation:



<?php

$count = $parent->childNodes->length;

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {

   $oldNode = $parent->removeChild($parent->childNodes->item(0)); // !!! not item($i) !!!

}

?>

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Justin Carlson ¶

15 years ago

Just a note, if you remove a node the whitespace it occupied will remain if you save the file.



To avoid this, use $document->preserveWhiteSpace = false;



For Example:



<?php

$document = new DomDocument();

$document->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

?>

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Michael D (DigitalGemstones.com) ¶

16 years ago

Note that iterating through the childNodes array and removing those children will stop the iteration.



For example:

<?php

foreach($node->childNodes as $child)

{

  if(iWantToDeleteThisNode($child))

     $child->parentNode->removeChild($child);

}

?>



Will not work.  Note that in removing the node, the childNodes array gets rebuilt (it seems) and so only the first item will be removed.  In order to properly remove all the children you want to remove, you will need to do something like the following:



<?php

$nodesToDelete = array();

foreach($node->childNodes as $child)

{

  if(iWantToDeleteThisNode($child))

    $nodesToDelete[] = $child;

}

foreach($nodesToDelete as $node)

{

  $node->parentNode->removeChild($node);

}

?>



I believe this is actually more efficient than the first snippet would be (if it worked) but obviously I cannot benchmark it.

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nggit@phpindonesia ¶

5 years ago

You can use foreach to remove multiple elements from a DOMNodeList, only if you use a temporary array or via XPath query.
If not, the simplest way will be:

<?php

while ($element = $nodeList->item(0)) {
    $element->parentNode->removeChild($element);
}

?>

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Kenney ¶

11 years ago

This method will remove all child nodes but leave the attributes (and namespace declarations) intact.

<?php
function removeChildren( &$node )
{
  $node->parentNode->replaceChild(
    $n = $node->cloneNode( false ),
    $node );

  $node = $n;
}
?>

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Wala ¶

16 years ago

I used the following to delete an entire node using the child element:

<?php
$childElement->parentNode->parentNode-> removeChild($childElement->parentNode);
?>

I could not have thought of it without the help of everyone who contributed to this thread.

Thanks!

(I had to introduce the extra space between parentNode->removeChild to get rid of the wordwrap() warning while posting this note)

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drimsun at gmail dot com ¶

14 years ago

If you try to remove children of a nested node (e.g. a <ul> list that contains another <ul>) and only remove the first level of child nodes, you'll get a messed-up node object.

Upon re-use of the messed-up node you'll get an error message that says: "Fatal error: Call to a member function blahblah() on a non-object".

To remove ALL child nodes, use this recursive function instead:
<?php
/**
 * Helper function that removes all child nodes of $node recursively
 * (i.e. including child nodes of the child nodes and so forth).
 */
function remove_children(&$node) {
  while ($node->firstChild) {
    while ($node->firstChild->firstChild) {
      remove_children($node->firstChild);
    }
    $node->removeChild($node->firstChild);
  }
}
?>

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tim cameron ryan ¶

16 years ago

Or something like:

<?php

while ($node->childNodes->length)
     $node->removeChild($node->firstChild);

?>

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pedro at leb dot usp dot br ¶

19 years ago

You may also use the hasChild function:
<?php

while($node->hasChildNodes()) {
  $node->removeChild($node->childNodes->item(0));
}

?>

When you remove a childNode, the next node becomes the first one!

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mytto at openxtrem dot com ¶

19 years ago

Back again on removing childs and iterators robustness. 

Things get a bit more complicated when you only want to remove 'some' nodes according to a certain condition. Then you can't just remove the first one repeatedly.

The trick is to copy the content of the node list into a more robust collection than DOMNodeList, I name array!

The following piece of code will, for instance, remove all empty child nodes:

<?php
// Copy childNodes array
$childNodes = array();
foreach($node->childNodes as $childNode) {
  $childNodes[] = $childNode;
}

// Browse with the copy     
foreach ($childNodes as $childNode) {
  if (!$childNode->hasChildNodes()); {
    $childNode->parentNode->removeChild($childNode);
  }
}
?>

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Vasil Rangelov ¶

17 years ago

At the time of writing, I suppose rightfully, removeChild() removes only the selected node, but when you remove an element, it's child elements are not removed. If you want to achieve that, replaceChild() is the solution.

The following should remove all descendants of the $node DOMNode, regardless of it's name:
<?php
$node->replaceChild(new DOMElement($node->nodeName), $node);
?>
If you're replacing the root element, you must explicitly state that with $node->documentElement as the second argument.

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