dom_import_simplexml

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

dom_import_simplexml Gets a DOMElement object from a SimpleXMLElement object

Description

dom_import_simplexml(object $node): DOMElement

This function takes the node node of class SimpleXML and makes it into a DOMElement node. This new object can then be used as a native DOMElement node.

Parameters

node

The SimpleXMLElement node.

Return Values

The DOMElement node added.

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 This function no longer returns null on failure.

Examples

Example #1 Import SimpleXML into DOM with dom_import_simplexml()

<?php

$sxe 
simplexml_load_string('<books><book><title>blah</title></book></books>');

if (
$sxe === false) {
    echo 
'Error while parsing the document';
    exit;
}

$dom_sxe dom_import_simplexml($sxe);
if (!
$dom_sxe) {
    echo 
'Error while converting XML';
    exit;
}

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
$dom_sxe $dom->importNode($dom_sxetrue);
$dom_sxe $dom->appendChild($dom_sxe);

echo 
$dom->saveXML();

?>

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