DOMDocument->saveXML() Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string &reftitle.description; DOMDocument stringsaveXML DOMNodenode intoptions 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. &reftitle.parameters; node Use this parameter to output only a specific node without XML declaration rather than the entire document. options Additional Options. Currently only LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG is supported. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the XML, or &false; if an error occurred. &reftitle.errors; DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR Raised if node is from another document. &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 5.1.0 Added the options parameter &reftitle.examples; Saving a DOM tree into a string 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 "Saving all the document:\n"; echo $doc->saveXML() . "\n"; echo "Saving only the title part:\n"; echo $doc->saveXML($title); ?> ]]> &example.outputs; This is the title Saving only the title part: This is the title ]]> &reftitle.seealso;