DOMImplementation::createDocumentType

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

Creates an empty DOMDocumentType object

public DOMDocumentType DOMImplementation::createDocumentType ([ string $qualifiedName = NULL [, string $publicId = NULL [, string $systemId = NULL ]]] )

Creates an empty DOMDocumentType object. Entity declarations and notations are not made available. Entity reference expansions and default attribute additions do not occur.

Parameters:

qualifiedName

The qualified name of the document type to create.

publicId

The external subset public identifier.

systemId

The external subset system identifier.

Returns:

A new DOMDocumentType node with its ownerDocument set to NULL.

Exception:

Raised if there is an error with the namespace, as determined by qualifiedName.

This method may be called statically, but will issue an E_STRICT error.

Examples:

Creating a document with an attached DTD

<?php
 
// Creates an instance of the DOMImplementation class
$imp = new DOMImplementation;
 
// Creates a DOMDocumentType instance
$dtd = $imp->createDocumentType('graph', '', 'graph.dtd');
 
// Creates a DOMDocument instance
$dom = $imp->createDocument("", "", $dtd);
 
// Set other properties
$dom->encoding = 'UTF-8';
$dom->standalone = false;
 
// Create an empty element
$element = $dom->createElement('graph');
 
// Append the element
$dom->appendChild($element);
 
// Retrieve and print the document
echo $dom->saveXML();
 
?>

The above example will output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE graph SYSTEM "graph.dtd">
<graph/>