(PHP 5)
DOMDocument::saveXML — Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string
Creates an XML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.
node
Use this parameter to output only a specific node without XML declaration rather than the entire document.
options
Additional Options. Currently only LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG is supported.
Returns the XML, or FALSE if an error occurred.
DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR
Raised if node is from another document.
| 版本 | 说明 |
|---|---|
| 5.1.0 |
Added the options parameter
|
Example #1 Saving a DOM tree into a string
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// we want a nice output
$doc->formatOutput = true;
$root = $doc->createElement('book');
$root = $doc->appendChild($root);
$title = $doc->createElement('title');
$title = $root->appendChild($title);
$text = $doc->createTextNode('This is the title');
$text = $title->appendChild($text);
echo "Saving all the document:\n";
echo $doc->saveXML() . "\n";
echo "Saving only the title part:\n";
echo $doc->saveXML($title);
?>
以上例程会输出：
Saving all the document: <?xml version="1.0"?> <book> <title>This is the title</title> </book> Saving only the title part: <title>This is the title</title>
richard dot gildx at gmail dot com (2012-07-31 02:30:09)
There are no best way to display the complete contens in an xml file in general (tags included). Here are three ways for you to try out.
By Richard Holm, Sweden.
<?php
$domdoc=new DOMDocument();
$domdoc->load('articles.xml');
$xmldoc=$domdoc->saveXML();
echo "Using htmlentities()<br/>";
echo '<b style="font-family:monospace">'.htmlentities($xmldoc).'</b>';
echo "<br/><br/>Using strtr()<br/>";
$tr=array('<'=>'<','>'=>'>',' '=>'?',"\\n"=>'<br/>');
echo '<b style="font-family:monospace">'.strtr($xmldoc,$tr).'</b>';
echo "<br/><br/>Using xmp-tag";
echo '<b style="font-family:monospace"><xmp>'.$xmldoc.'</xmp></b>';
?>
Note: xmp-tag is deprecated (no support). However, some browsers still support it. My favorites are: Mozilla, Chrome and none Microsoft products.
xianrenb at gmail dot com (2012-07-15 22:54:13)
If you want to save xhtml (in a string), you may try the following method:
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// ...
$xhtml = (string) $doc->saveXML($doc->doctype);
$xhtml .= "\n";
$xhtml .= (string) $doc->saveXML($doc->documentElement);
?>
_ michael (2010-04-19 11:30:17)
If your data is UTF-8-encoded and you discover that saveXML() turned all non-ASCII characters into numeric entities (e.g. ? -> ö):
Chances are that the XML declaration has been missing when you loaded the source data. Try adding <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> to the beginning of the document before you read it with load() or loadXML(). Then the non-ASCII characters should remain untouched. Worked for me.
samstah at gmail dot com (2010-03-19 03:56:16)
We discovered using DOMDocument::saveHTML() that it converts to HTML 4.01 compatible markup; rather than XHTML. The simple answer is to use saveXML() instead, although this adds the XML declaration to the top.
To qjerry.com at gmail.com, thanks for the pointer below - but I think that the simplest way seems to be using:
<?php $domDocument->saveXML($domDocument->documentElement); ?>
Of course, if you're dealing with XHTML, this will strip any <!DOCTYPE> declarations in the document too.
mdmitry at gmail dot com (2009-12-21 09:21:36)
If you use saveXML($node) to save a part of an HTML document, you may want to use this function to make empty tags more HTML-compatible:
<?php
function xml2xhtml($xml) {
return preg_replace_callback('#<(\w+)([^>]*)\s*/>#s', create_function('$m', '
$xhtml_tags = array("br", "hr", "input", "frame", "img", "area", "link", "col", "base", "basefont", "param");
return in_array($m[1], $xhtml_tags) ? "<$m[1]$m[2] />" : "<$m[1]$m[2]></$m[1]>";
'), $xml);
}
?>
example:
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML('<div class="clear"></div><br><p></p>');
$output = $doc->saveXML($doc->documentElement);
echo $output;
// output: <html><body><div class="clear"/><br/><p/></body></html>
echo xml2xhtml($output);
// output: <html><body><div class="clear"></div><br /><p></p></body></html>
?>
qjerry.com at gmail.com (2009-05-04 04:24:42)
The simpliest (and probably the fastest) way to strip an XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" ... ?>) out of output document, is to output child nodes of DOMDocument separately:
<?php
$document = new DOMDocument();
$document->load('/some/file.xml');
// this will also output doctype and comments at top level
foreach($document->childNodes as $node)
$result .= $document->saveXML($node)."\n";
echo $result;
?>
This might be userful when dealing with browser compatibility issues, for example, well known problem with valid XHTML in IE6.
vikramvmalhotra at hotmail dot com (2009-01-27 15:49:25)
if you are storing multi-byte characters in XML, then saving the XML using saveXML() will create problems. It will spit out the characters converted in encoded format.
<?php
$str = domdoc->saveXML(); // gives "&x#1245;" some encoded data
?>
Instead do the following
<?php
$str = domdoc->saveXML(domdoc->documentElement); // gives "保存しました" correct multi-byte data
?>
php_dev at cyane dot nl (2008-11-04 02:28:08)
Since PHP Version 5.2.6, this function spits out an utf-8 encoded string, regardless of the xml encoding, in my case Latin1.
I had to alter my class with
$str=utf8_decode($doc->saveXML())
to fix a huge problem with all the sites on my server that make use of DOM.
These things did NOT fix it:
$encoding="Latin1"; // or ISO... whatever
$doc = new DOMDocument("1.0",$encoding);
$doc->encoding=$encoding;
shinsh at shinmugen dot net (2008-05-23 07:57:35)
Be careful, this function has been changed in 5.2.6 version. Adding a required parameter which is not that required wasn't the most intelligent idea ever, especially for a function which is often used.
To fix your programs if you have an error, fill the first parameter like this:
$dom->saveXML($dom->documentElement);
Why didn't the devs simply implement this as optional parameter, fixing the default parameter as documentElement?
Kriogen (2007-12-26 12:57:22)
Create before test.xml with:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Photos>
</Photos>
and past after in your php-file:
<?php
$simp = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
$node = $simp->addChild('home');
$node->addChild('mychild', 'insert text');
$s = simplexml_import_dom($simp);
$s->saveXML('test.xml');
?>
This code creating a child-nod in the root.
Owner http://www.mensfashion.ru
JITR (2007-08-02 17:10:41)
Comment to `devin at SPAMISBAD dot tritarget dot com''s post:
Thanks for pointing out the pitfalls of `formatOutput' vs. `load*()'. This has certainly saved me from some possible surprises.
I think the seemingly strange behaviour can be explained. Warning: The following stuff is mostly based on deductions and experiments. Much less on studying the sources and specs (I'm not sure some of these would provide answer anyway, at least not easily).
As you point out, `preserveWhiteSpace' must be set before loading the DOM from the source string (I'm working with `loadXML()' but I believe the situation should be the same with `load()' you used). This looks logical, as this property seems to control the parsing and DOM creation process during which text nodes containing the whitespace are either included or dropped. This can be proven by dumping the DOM structure and comparing the results based on the value of `preserveWhiteSpace'. With `preserveWhiteSpace' set to `FALSE', no text nodes containing whitespace will be present in the returned DOM. When this property is `TRUE', these nodes will be present.
Note: When speaking about the whitespace in the previous paragraph, we're most certainly speaking about so called `whitespace in element content' or `element content whitespace', if I'm not mistaken. See also my comment in the notes of `DOMText->isWhitespaceInElementContent()' method.
As for the mysterious effect on the output of `saveXLM()', I think the explanation lies in the presence or absence of the above mentioned whitespace text nodes. This was also proven by experiments: After adding such a node into a DOM which contained none (the DOM was created using `loadXML()' with `preserveWhiteSpace' set to `FALSE'), the output formatting got affected in a such a way, the formatting got lost for the rest of the document after the added node. I think the presence of whitespace text nodes forces such rendering, that the content of these nodes is used to separate adjoining nodes thus disabling default formatting. Only when there are no such text nodes present, the ouput formatting takes effect (provided the `formatOutput' is set to `TRUE', of course).
Well, the thing I don't really understand is how you did get an output of a signle line with `formatOutput' set to `TRUE'. This has happened to me when no whitespace text nodes were present (ie. when loading the XML with `preserveWhiteSpace' set to `FALSE') *and* with `formatOutput' set to *`FALSE'* (with the opposite value of `formatOutput', the formatting should do it's work and you should not end up with just one line). But I haven't seen your source. Perhaps you had whitespace nodes containing no new-lines in your DOM?
As for the CAUTION about root element, I didn't see any problems with empty root element neither in shortened nor full form. What did you have in mind, when you said it `WORKS' or `DOES NOT WORK'?
Sander (2007-04-25 05:35:24)
Note that for large DOM trees (tens of thousands of elements nested at least a few levels deep), setting formatOutput to true drives up memory usage to rather insane levels when you call saveXML(). (Tested with PHP 5.2.1) Pretty output is not worth that cost.
nevyn at NOSPAM dot email dot PLEASE dot it (2006-12-27 13:41:49)
A little function to get the full xml contents of a Xml node.
function innerXml($node)
{
$out = $node->ownerDocument->saveXML($node);
$re = "{^<(\\w*)(?:\\s*\\w+=(?:\"[^\"]*\"|\'[^\']*\'))*\\s*>(.*)</\\1>$}";
preg_match($re, $out, $mat);
return $mat[2];
}
devin at SPAMISBAD dot tritarget dot com (2006-08-14 22:52:01)
It took some searching to figure this one out. I didn't see much in the way of explaining this glitch in the manual thus far. (For PHP5 I believe)
formatOutput = true; appears to fail when the origin of the DOM came from a file via load(). EX:
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->load ("test.xml");
$dom->formatOutput = true;
$new_tag = $dom->createElement ('testNode');
$new_tag->appendChild (
$dom->createElement ('test', 'this is a test'));
$dom->documentElement->appendChild ($new_tag);
printf ("<pre>%s</pre>", htmlentities ($dom->saveXML()));
?>
Will not indent the output and will display the modified nodes all in one long line. Makes for editing a config.xml a bit difficult when saving to a file.
By adding the preserveWhiteSpace = false; BEFORE the load() the formatOutput works as expected. EX:
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->load ("test.xml");
$dom->formatOutput = true;
$new_tag = $dom->createElement ('testNode');
$new_tag->appendChild (
$dom->createElement ('test', 'this is a test'));
$dom->documentElement->appendChild ($new_tag);
printf ("<pre>%s</pre>", htmlentities ($dom->saveXML()));
?>
CAUTION: If your loaded xml file (test.xml) has an empty root node that is not shortened or has no children this will NOT work.
Example:
DOES NOT WORK:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
</root>
WORKS:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root/>
WORKS:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<!-- comment -->
</root>
WORKS:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<child/>
</root>
(2006-03-26 16:20:35)
I used the function posted by "joe" but the following works to me for get the innerXML
<?php
$itemLeido = $XMLRespuesta->getElementsByTagName("articulos");
foreach($itemLeido as $node) {
echo($node->ownerDocument->saveXML($node));
}
?>
mswiercz at mwerk dot com (2004-09-10 03:43:03)
Quick tip to minimize memory when generating documents with DOM.
Rather than using
$xmlStr = DOMDocument->saveXML();
echo $xmlStr;
to dump a large DOM to the output buffer, use a PHP output stream, as in
DOMDocument->save('php://output');
A lot of memory will be saved when generating large DOMs.
padys at tlen dot pl (2004-08-05 07:36:36)
When you save whole document:
DOMDocument->saveXML() produces string in encoding defined in property DOMDocument->encoding.
When you save only one node:
DOMDocument->saveXML(DOMNode) produces always string in UTF-8.