DOMDocument::createTextNode

(PHP 5)

DOMDocument::createTextNode — Create new text node

Description

DOMText DOMDocument::createTextNode ( string $content )

This function creates a new instance of class DOMText. This node will not show up in the document unless it is inserted with (e.g.) DOMNode->appendChild().

Parameters

content: The content of the text.

Return Values

The new DOMText or FALSE if an error occured.

DOMNode::appendChild - Adds new child at the end of the children
DOMDocument::createAttribute - Create new attribute
DOMDocument::createAttributeNS - Create new attribute node with an associated namespace
DOMDocument::createCDATASection - Create new cdata node
DOMDocument::createComment - Create new comment node
DOMDocument::createDocumentFragment - Create new document fragment
DOMDocument::createElement - Create new element node
DOMDocument::createElementNS - Create new element node with an associated namespace
DOMDocument::createEntityReference - Create new entity reference node
DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction - Creates new PI node

DOMDocument::getElementById

DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction

Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009

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DOMDocument::createTextNode

Alex Kaye
25-Jul-2009 02:04


A quick note to anyone who is using character entities (e.g. &copy;) in this, and finding them automatically escaped. The correct thing to do here is to use the createEntityReference method (e.g. createEntityReference("copy");), and then appendChild this entity between text nodes.





Example:





<?php


$copyright_text_1 = $this->document->createTextNode("Copyright ");


$copyright_text_2 = $this->document->createTextNode(" Alex Kaye 2009");


$copyright_symbol = $this->document->createEntityReference("copy");


$copyright->appendChild($copyright_text_1);


$copyright->appendChild($copyright_symbol);


$copyright->appendChild($copyright_text_2);


?>

anton dot vakulchik at gmail dot com
12-Mar-2008 04:23


//For PHP5

$Doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');

$Dom = $Doc->appendChild(new domelement('log'));

$Dom->setAttribute('class','something');

$Dom->appendChild($Doc->createTextNode('something'));

jon at websandbox dot net
03-Aug-2005 11:01


About escaping characters:

This is standard behavior.  brackets, ampersans, and maybe even quoted will be "escaped" if you output your XML as a string.  



This should not, however, happen if you append your text node to a CDATA section.

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