DomDocument->doctype
in php5
$root = $dom->documentElement;
$tag = $root->tagName;
DomDocument->document_element
(No version information available, might be only in CVS)
DomDocument->document_element — Returns root element node
Description
This function returns the root element node of a document.
The following example returns just the element with name CHAPTER and prints it. The other node -- the comment -- is not returned.
Example #1 Retrieving root element
<?php
include("example.inc");
if (!$dom = domxml_open_mem($xmlstr)) {
echo "Error while parsing the document\n";
exit;
}
$root = $dom->document_element();
print_r($root);
?>
The above example will output:
domelement Object ( [type] => 1 [tagname] => chapter [0] => 6 [1] => 137960648 )
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User Contributed NotesDomDocument->document_element
jaworskidaniel no at spam gmail dot com
14-Jul-2008 02:19
14-Jul-2008 02:19
misterffoeg at hotmail dot com
11-Dec-2007 12:03
11-Dec-2007 12:03
The last note is incorrect. The class he is referring to is DOMDocument, not DomDocument. This page is for the PHP 4 extension. Doing "new DomDocument" would be a fatal error in PHP 5 unless you hacked the old extension into it which would be a very useless move.
rianfowler no at spam gmail dot com
02-Apr-2007 02:51
02-Apr-2007 02:51
The domelement returned by this will function as a domnode object for things like ->append_child.
$nodeChild = myxmldoc->create_element('child');
$nodeRoot = $this->myxmldoc->document_element();
$nodeRoot->append_child($nodeChild);
filipp at mac dot com
30-Dec-2006 11:29
30-Dec-2006 11:29
as of PHP 5 (tested with 5.1.4), remember to use documentElement instead. As in:
$dom = new DomDocument ();
$dom -> load ('file.xml');
$newEl = $dom -> createElement ('newEl');
$dom -> documentElement -> appendChild ($newEl);