This function takes a node of a DOM document and makes it into a SimpleXML node. This new object can then be used as a native SimpleXML element.
A DOM Element node
You may use this optional parameter so that simplexml_import_dom() will return an object of the specified class. That class should extend the SimpleXMLElement class.
Returns a SimpleXMLElement or FALSE
on failure.
This function may return Boolean FALSE
, but may also return a non-Boolean value which evaluates to FALSE
. Please read the section on Booleans for more information. Use the === operator for testing the return value of this function.
<?php $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadXML('<books><book><title>blah</title></book></books>'); if (!$dom) { echo 'Error while parsing the document'; exit; } $s = simplexml_import_dom($dom); echo $s->book[0]->title; ?>
The above example will output:
blah
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