DOMDocument->save()

Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file ()

Example 527. Saving a DOM tree into a file

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<?php


$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// we want a nice output
$doc->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 'Wrote: ' . $doc->save("/tmp/test.xml") . ' bytes'; // Wrote: 72 bytes

?>

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siegparr

The XML parser converts the text of an XML document into UTF-8, even if you have set the character encoding of the XML, for example as a second parameter of the DOMDocument constructor. After parsing the XML with the load() command all its texts have been converted to UTF-8. In case you append text nodes with special characters (e. g. Umlaut) to your XML document you should therefore use utf8_encode() with your text to convert it into UTF-8 before you append the text to the document. Otherwise you will get an error message like "output conversion failed due to conv error" at the save() command. See example below: <?php // Text to insert into XML below $txt = "a text with special characters like 'Ã¤', 'ÃŸ', 'Ãœ' etc."; // Create Instance of DOMDocument $dom = new DOMDocument; // Load XML file // Was created before with DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1') $dom = $dom->load("file.xml"); // Find the parent node $parent = $dom->documentElement; // Create Instance of DomXPath $xpath = new DomXPath($dom); // new node will be inserted before this node $next = $xpath->query("//parentnode/childnode"); // Create the new element $new_elem = $dom->createElement('new_elem'); // Insert the new element $parent->insertBefore($new_elem, $next->item(0)); // DOMXML = utf-8! (will be converted to iso-8859-1 only at 'save()') // prevents error message "output conversion failed due to conv error" at 'save()' $txt = utf8_encode($txt); // Create new text node with utf-8 encoded string $nodetext = $dom->createTextNode("$txt"); // Append text node to new element $nodetext = $new_elem->appendChild($nodetext); // save $dom->save("file.xml"); ?> Hope this helps someone. siegparr

jon

If you're working with an existing XML file that contains an entity definition with an external reference like this one: [ <!ENTITY % all.entities SYSTEM "all-entities.ent"> %all.entities; ]> Be warned that DOMDocument->save() will expand this to include all definitions in all referenced entities file(s) when it writes the file. In other words, the same section of your saved file would now look something like this: <!ENTITY % all.entities SYSTEM "all-entities.ent"> <!ENTITY % fixedchars.entities SYSTEM "../common/fixedchars.ent"> <!ENTITY % urls.entities SYSTEM "../refman-common/urls.ent"> <!ENTITY % phrases.entities SYSTEM "../common/phrases.ent"> <!ENTITY % ndb.entities SYSTEM "ndb.en.ent"> <!ENTITY minus "–"> <!ENTITY Oslash "Ø"> <!ENTITY macr "¯"> <!ENTITY auml "ä"> [etc.] I've not found a way to keep this from occurring.

jimmynighthawk

+++ EMERGENCY NOT +++ When the HTML-Specification which is implemented in ->saveHTML() is implemented in ->save() you are not able to store XML-Tags which have no End-Tags in HTML (e. g. <link>- and <meta>-Tags). Same in other words: When the HTML-Specification which is implemented in ->saveHTML() is accidently implemented in ->save() the VALUE and END-TAG of nodes will be removed/deleted, when there is no VALUE and END-TAG allowed in HTML. If this happens note this to your Hoster. It should be corrected immediately to perfom full benefit of XML, and perhaps your XML-database. Let us just say about dealed fairly: "shit happens"

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