How to replace the text of a node using DOMDocument
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Solution 1
Set DOMNode::$nodeValue
instead:
$doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue = $titleText;
$doc->getElementsByTagName("description")->item(0)->nodeValue = $descriptionText;
$doc->getElementsByTagName("link")->item(0)->nodeValue = $linkText;
This overwrites the existing content with the new value.
Solution 2
as doub1ejack mentioned
$doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue = $titleText;
will give error if $titleText = "& is not allowed in Node::nodeValue";
So the better solution would be
// clear the existing text content
$doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue = "";
// then create new TextNode
$doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->appendChild($doc->createTextNode($titleText));
Author by
Salman A
Updated on November 15, 2020Comments
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Salman A over 3 years
This is my code that loads an existing XML file or string into a DOMDocument object:
$doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->formatOutput = true; // the content actually comes from an external file $doc->loadXML('<rss version="2.0"> <channel> <title></title> <description></description> <link></link> </channel> </rss>'); $doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->appendChild($doc->createTextNode($titleText)); $doc->getElementsByTagName("description")->item(0)->appendChild($doc->createTextNode($descriptionText)); $doc->getElementsByTagName("link")->item(0)->appendChild($doc->createTextNode($linkText));
I need to overwrite the value inside the title, description and link tags. The Last three lines in the above code are my attempt at doing so; but seems like if the nodes are not empty then the text will be "appended" to existing content. How can I empty the text content of a node and append new text in one line.