To add on to the other example, here's how to create an XHTML 1.0 transitional document with head, title, and body elements.
<?php
$document = DOMImplementation::createDocument(null, 'html',
DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("html",
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN",
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"));
$document->formatOutput = true;
$html = $document->documentElement;
$head = $document->createElement('head');
$title = $document->createElement('title');
$text = $document->createTextNode('Title of Page');
$body = $document->createElement('body');
$title->appendChild($text);
$head->appendChild($title);
$html->appendChild($head);
$html->appendChild($body);
echo $document->saveXML();
?>
This outputs: (http links removed due to spam)
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "doctype.dtd">
<html xmlns="w3org1999xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Title of Page</title>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
Note the saveXML function. If saveHTML was used instead, you get the output:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "doctype.dtd">
<html>
<head><title>Title of Page</title></head>
<body></body>
</html>
DOMImplementation::createDocument
(PHP 5, PHP 7)
DOMImplementation::createDocument — Creates a DOMDocument object of the specified type with its document element
Description
public DOMImplementation::createDocument
([ string
$namespaceURI = NULL
[, string $qualifiedName = NULL
[, DOMDocumentType $doctype = NULL
]]] ) : DOMDocumentCreates a DOMDocument object of the specified type with its document element.
Parameters
-
namespaceURI -
The namespace URI of the document element to create.
-
qualifiedName -
The qualified name of the document element to create.
-
doctype -
The type of document to create or
NULL.
Return Values
A new DOMDocument object. If
namespaceURI, qualifiedName,
and doctype are null, the returned
DOMDocument is empty with no document element
Errors/Exceptions
-
DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR -
Raised if
doctypehas already been used with a different document or was created from a different implementation. -
DOM_NAMESPACE_ERR -
Raised if there is an error with the namespace, as determined by
namespaceURIandqualifiedName.
This method may be called statically, but will issue an E_STRICT error.
See Also
- DOMDocument::__construct() - Creates a new DOMDocument object
- DOMImplementation::createDocumentType() - Creates an empty DOMDocumentType object
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User Contributed Notes 3 notes
eboyjr ¶
9 years ago
sleistico at gmail dot com ¶
1 year ago
I just recently got an error, having to do with deprecation, by using the type of calls in the other example listed here. What I had to do instead looks like this...
$htmldoc = (new DOMImplementation)->createDocument(null, 'html', (new DOMImplementation)->createDocumentType("html"));
This creates a document with <!DOCTYPE html> at the top of it.
arturm at union dot com dot pl ¶
13 years ago
To create HTML document with doctype:
<?php
$doctype = DOMImplementation::createDocumentType("html",
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN",
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd");
$doc = DOMImplementation::createDocument(null, 'html', $doctype);
?>
