DomDocument->html_dump_mem Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string as HTML &reftitle.description; stringDomDocument->html_dump_mem Creates an HTML document from the dom representation. This function usually is called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below. Creating a simple HTML document header create_element("html"); $root = $doc->append_child($root); $head = $doc->create_element("head"); $head = $root->append_child($head); $title = $doc->create_element("title"); $title = $head->append_child($title); $text = $doc->create_text_node("This is the title"); $text = $title->append_child($text); echo $doc->html_dump_mem(); ?> ]]> &example.outputs; This is the title ]]> See also domdocument_dump_file, and domdocument_html_dump_mem.