DomNode->clone

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krymsonwulf at gmail dot com
06-Jun-2006 05:41


It seems like this function is non-recursive: cloning a node will not clone it's child nodes in my experience

andrew at transitionmedia dot co dot uk
12-Feb-2006 11:04


As of version 4.3 PHP doesn't support Appending a child from another source document. If you are trying to  import information from multiple sources into a final document [for transformation using XSL as an example] then you can have problems. This technique can be used to do it though.



I am assuming you have two documents open, $xmldoc1 and $xmldoc2 and you have selected [via XPath or explicit searching] the nodes you want in each document. Thus $xmldoc1_appending_node is the node you would like to add $xmldoc2_importnode to.



<?



// first we create a temporary node within the document we want to add to.

$temp_importnode = $xmldoc1->create_element("import");



// now we have a node that is in the right document context we can clone the one we want into this one.

$temp_importnode = $xmldoc_importnode->clone_node(true);



// by using true in the above call to clone_node() we copy all of the child nodes as well. Use false or nothing if you just want the containing node with no children.



$xmldoc1_appending->append_child($importnode);



?>



Now your document contains the new nodes imported from a different document.

hrz at geodata dot soton dot ac dot uk
11-May-2005 11:28


Passing boolean 'true' as the argument to this function will result in all child nodes being cloned as well.

r dot kamstra at syntomax dot com
09-Nov-2002 12:06


if a DomNode is duplicated it's siblings and parent are not duplicated

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