DOMDocument->saveXML
Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string
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DOMDocumentstringsaveXMLDOMNodenode
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.
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node
Use this parameter to output only a specific node without XML declaration
rather than the entire document.
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Returns the XML, or &false; if an error occured.
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Saving a DOM tree into a file
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);
?>
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This is the title
Retrieving only the head part:
This is the title
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DOMDocument->save()DOMDocument->load()DOMDocument->loadXML()