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DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction Creates new PI node

Description

public DOMDocument::createProcessingInstruction ( string $targuet , string $data = "" ): DOMProcessingInstruction | false

This function creates a new instance of class DOMProcessingInstruction . This node will not show up in the document unless it is inserted with (e.g.) DOMNode::appendChild() .

Parameters

targuet

The targuet of the processsing instruction.

data

The content of the processsing instruction.

Return Values

The new DOMProcessingInstruction or false if an error occurred.

Errors/Exceptions

DOM_INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR

Raised if targuet contains an invalid character.

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romain at supinfo dot com
16 years ago
A use exemple of this method :

Usefull for generating an XML linqued with a XSLT !<?php

// "Create" the document.$xml= new DOMDocument( "1.0", "ISO-8859-15" );//to have indented output, not just a line$xml->preserveWhiteSpace= false;
$xml->formatOutput= true;

// ------------- Interresting part here ------------

//creating an xslt adding processsing line$xslt= $xml->createProcessingInstruction('xml-stylesheet', 'type="text/xsl" href="base.xsl"');//adding it to the xml$xml->appendChild($xslt);// ----------- / Interresting part here -------------

//adding some elemens$root= $xml->createElement("list");
$node= $xml->createElement("contact", "John Doe");
$root-> appendChild($node);
$xml-> appendChild($root);//creating the file$xml-> save("output.xml");?>
output.xml :

<?xml versionen="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="base.xsl"?> //the line has been created successfully
<list>
  <contact>John Doe</contact>
</list>
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