Question

Is there a way to create a node that has mixed XML content in it with the PHP DOM?

Answer 1

If I understood you correctly you want something similar to innerHTML in JavaScript. There is a solution to that:

$xmlString = 'some <b>mixed</b> content';  $dom = new DOMDocument; $fragment = $dom->createDocumentFragment(); $fragment->appendXML($xmlString); $dom->appendChild($fragment); // done 

To sumarize. What you need is:

• DOMDocument::createDocumentFragment()
• DOMDocumentFragment::appendXML()

Although you didn’t asked about it I’ll tell you how to get the string representation of a DOM node as opposed to the whole DOM document:

// for a DOMDocument you have $dom->save($file); $string = $dom->saveXML();  $dom->saveHTML(); $string = $dom->saveHTMLFile($file);  // For a DOMElement you have $node = $dom->getElementById('some-id');  $string = $node->C14N(); $node->C14NFile($file); 

Those two methods are currently not documented.