php-doc-en/reference/dom/functions/dom-domdocument-savexml.xml

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<refentry id="function.dom-domdocument-savexml">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>DOMDocument->saveXML()</refname>
  <refpurpose>
   Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string
  </refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <classsynopsis>
   <ooclass><classname>DOMDocument</classname></ooclass>
   <methodsynopsis>
    <type>string</type><methodname>saveXML</methodname>
    <methodparam choice="opt"><type>DOMNode</type><parameter>node</parameter></methodparam>
   </methodsynopsis>
  </classsynopsis>
  <para>
   Creates an XML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually 
   called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below. 
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>node</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Use this parameter to output only a specific node without XML declaration
       rather than the entire document.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns the XML, or &false; if an error occured.
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="exceptions">
  &reftitle.exceptions;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><constant>DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR</constant></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       Raised if <parameter>node</parameter> is from another document.
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Saving a DOM tree into a string</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// we want a nice output
$doc->formatOutput = true;

$root = $doc->createElement('book');
$root = $doc->appendChild($root);

$title = $doc->createElement('title');
$title = $root->appendChild($title);

$text = $doc->createTextNode('This is the title');
$text = $title->appendChild($text);

echo "Retrieving all the document:\n";
echo $doc->saveXML() . "\n";

echo "Retrieving only the title part:\n";
echo $doc->saveXML($title);

?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    &example.outputs;
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
Retrieving all the document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<book>
  <title>This is the title</title>
</book>

Retrieving only the title part:
<title>This is the title</title>
]]>
    </screen>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><xref linkend="function.dom-domdocument-save" /></member>
    <member><xref linkend="function.dom-domdocument-load" /></member>
    <member><xref linkend="function.dom-domdocument-loadxml" /></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
</refentry>

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