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    DOMText::__construct

    (PHP 5, PHP 7)

    DOMText::__construct — Creates a new DOMText object

    Description

    public DOMText::__construct ([ string $value ] )

    Creates a new DOMText object.

    Parameters

    value

    The value of the text node. If not supplied an empty text node is created.

    Examples

    Example #1 Creating a new DOMText

    <?php

    $dom     = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');
    $element = $dom->appendChild(new DOMElement('root'));
    $text = $element->appendChild(new DOMText('root value'));
    echo     $dom->saveXML(); /* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><root>root value</root> */

    ?>

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    User Contributed Notes

    Thomas
    4 years ago
    I experinced that DOMText, given a integer as only value to the constructor failed to return valid data. I had to typecast the input to a string first:

    $intValue = 3252; // Post/Zip-code
    $some_element->appendChild( new DOMText( (string) $intValue) );

    When not typecasting using "(string)" the XML output from $root->saveXML() would not validate.
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