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The Dom\Entity class

Introduction

(PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

This interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document.

This is the modern, spec-compliant equivalent of DOMEntity.

Class synopsis

class Dom\Entity extends Dom\Node {
/* Inherited constants */
public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x1;
public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x2;
public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x4;
public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x8;
public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;
public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;
/* Properties */
public readonly ?string $publicId;
public readonly ?string $systemId;
public readonly ?string $notationName;
/* Inherited properties */
public readonly int $nodeType;
public readonly string $nodeName;
public readonly string $baseURI;
public readonly bool $isConnected;
public readonly ?Dom\Document $ownerDocument;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $parentNode;
public readonly ?Dom\Element $parentElement;
public readonly Dom\NodeList $childNodes;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $firstChild;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $lastChild;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $previousSibling;
public readonly ?Dom\Node $nextSibling;
public ?string $nodeValue;
public ?string $textContent;
/* Inherited methods */
/* Not documented yet */
}

Properties

publicId

The public identifier associated with the entity if specified, and null otherwise.

systemId

The system identifier associated with the entity if specified, and null otherwise. This may be an absolute URI or not.

notationName

For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For parsed entities, this is null.

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