Note that loadXML crops off beginning and trailing whitespace and linebreaks.
When using loadXML and appendChild to add a chunk of XML to an existing document, you may want to force a linebreak between the end of the XML chunk and the next line (usually a close tag) in the output file:
$childDocument = new DOMDocument;
$childDocument>preserveWhiteSpace = true;
$childDocument->loadXML(..XML-Chunk..);
$mNewNode = $mainDOcument->importNode($childDocument->documentElement, true);
$ParentNode->appendChild($mNewNode);
$ParentNode->appendChild($mainDocument->createTextNode("\\n ");
Although it is said that DOM should not be used to make 'pretty' XML output, it is something I struggled with to get something that was readable for testing. Another solution is to use the createDocumentFragment()->appendXML(..XML-Chunk..) instead, which seems not to trim off linebreaks like DOMDocument->loadXML() does.
DOMDocument->loadXML()
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class DOMDocument {bool loadXML ( string source [, int options] )
}
Loads an XML document from a string.
This method may also be called statically to load and create a DOMDocument object. The static invocation may be used when no DOMDocument properties need to be set prior to loading.
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earth at anonymous dot com
12-Apr-2006 05:28
12-Apr-2006 05:28
georg at howen dot de
06-Mar-2006 08:04
06-Mar-2006 08:04
Just in case you try to do the same as I did and thought you found a bug:
loadXML() is not a true static function. It is just allowed to be called statically. When called statically within a method of an instantiated DOMDocument object it acts as if the method had been called directly from the object itself rather than statically.
This means that if you call DOMDocument::loadXML() from within an instantiated DOMDocument object, it will not return a new DOMDocument but true/false.
Georg
primaryspace at hotmail dot com
10-Aug-2005 04:42
10-Aug-2005 04:42
This method replaces any existing document tree already in the object with the document tree contained in the source argument.
blaine at blainegarrett dot com
26-May-2005 12:04
26-May-2005 12:04
It seems this method does not throw a DOMException if it fails, but rather a regular warning. Thus it makes it hard to fine tune strings to try to get them to be valid XML.
Ideally, there would be a way to figure out why loadXML failed (by way of the exception), but rather only an warning is displayed. This is a heads up for anyone trying to write their own string_to_xml() functions.
$string = '$$$"$$"&&&&lesund';
try {
$dom = DOMDocument::loadXML($test_string);
}
catch(DOMException $e) {
echo '<pre>';
print_r($e);
echo '</pre>';
}
Blaine
http://blainegarrett.com