DOMText::__construct

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMText::__construct Creates a new DOMText object

Description

public DOMText::__construct(string $data = "")

Creates a new DOMText object.

Parameters

data

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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Thomas
12 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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