PHP DomDocument Examples and Quick Reference
Last updated:load an xml file
$path = '/path/to/your/file.xml';
$xml_data = file_get_contents($path);
$dd->loadXML($xml_data);
load an xml file ignoring blanks
this is useful because generally you don't want to take spaces between nodes into account. (other spaces are still parsed)
$path = '/path/to/your/file.xml';
$xml_data = file_get_contents($path);
$dd->loadXML($xml_data,LIBXML_NOBLANKS);
fetch the root node
suppose the root node in your xml file is <foo>
$path = '/path/to/your/file.xml';
$xml_data = file_get_contents($path);
$dd->loadXML($xml_data,LIBXML_NOBLANKS);
$root_node = $dd->getElementsByTagName('foo')->item(0);
dump the XML to the screen
var_dump-style dumping for XML files
$dd = new DOMDocument;
$dd->loadXML($xml_data,LIBXML_NOBLANKS);
echo htmlspecialchars($dd->saveXML());
exit;