DOMImplementation::createDocument

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

DOMImplementation::createDocument — Creates a DOMDocument object of the specified type with its document element

Description

public DOMDocument DOMImplementation::createDocument ([ string $namespaceURI = NULL [, string $qualifiedName = NULL [, DOMDocumentType $doctype = NULL ]]] )

Creates a DOMDocument object of the specified type with its document element.

Parameters

namespaceURI: The namespace URI of the document element to create.
qualifiedName: The qualified name of the document element to create.
doctype: The type of document to create or NULL.

Return Values

A new DOMDocument object. If namespaceURI, qualifiedName, and doctype are null, the returned DOMDocument is empty with no document element

Errors/Exceptions

DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if doctype has already been used with a different document or was created from a different implementation.
DOM_NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if there is an error with the namespace, as determined by namespaceURI and qualifiedName.

This method may be called statically, but will issue an E_STRICT error.

User Contributed Notes

eboyjr

5 years ago


To add on to the other example, here's how to create an XHTML 1.0 transitional document with head, title, and body elements.

<?php

$document = DOMImplementation::createDocument(null, 'html',
    DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("html", 
        "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN", 
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"));
$document->formatOutput = true;

$html = $document->documentElement;
$head = $document->createElement('head');
$title = $document->createElement('title');
$text = $document->createTextNode('Title of Page');
$body = $document->createElement('body');

$title->appendChild($text);
$head->appendChild($title);
$html->appendChild($head);
$html->appendChild($body);

echo $document->saveXML();
?>

This outputs: (http links removed due to spam)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "doctype.dtd"> 
<html xmlns="w3org1999xhtml"> 
  <head> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> 
    <title>Title of Page</title> 
  </head> 
  <body></body> 
</html> 

Note the saveXML function. If saveHTML was used instead, you get the output:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "doctype.dtd"> 
<html> 
<head><title>Title of Page</title></head> 
<body></body> 
</html>

arturm at union dot com dot pl

9 years ago


To create HTML document with doctype:



<?php

$doctype = DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("html",

                "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN",

                "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd");

$doc = DOMImplementation::createDocument(null, 'html', $doctype);

?>