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The DOMText class

Introduction

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

The DOMText class inherits from DOMCharacterData and represents the textual content of a DOMElement or DOMAttr.

Class synopsis

class DOMText extends DOMCharacterData {
/* Inherited constants */
public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x1;
public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x2;
public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x4;
public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x8;
public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;
public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;
/* Properties */
public readonly string $wholeText;
/* Inherited properties */
public string $data;
public readonly int $length;
public readonly ?DOMElement $previousElementSibling;
public readonly ?DOMElement $nextElementSibling;
public readonly string $nodeName;
public ?string $nodeValue;
public readonly int $nodeType;
public readonly ?DOMNode $parentNode;
public readonly ?DOMElement $parentElement;
public readonly DOMNodeList $childNodes;
public readonly ?DOMNode $firstChild;
public readonly ?DOMNode $lastChild;
public readonly ?DOMNode $previousSibling;
public readonly ?DOMNode $nextSibling;
public readonly ?DOMNamedNodeMap $attributes;
public readonly bool $isConnected;
public readonly ?DOMDocument $ownerDocument;
public readonly ?string $namespaceURI;
public string $prefix;
public readonly ?string $localName;
public readonly ?string $baseURI;
public string $textContent;
/* Methods */
public __construct(string $data = "")
public isElementContentWhitespace(): bool
public isWhitespaceInElementContent(): bool
public splitText(int $offset): DOMText|false
/* Inherited methods */
public DOMCharacterData::after(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void
public DOMCharacterData::appendData(string $data): true
public DOMCharacterData::before(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void
public DOMCharacterData::deleteData(int $offset, int $count): bool
public DOMCharacterData::insertData(int $offset, string $data): bool
public DOMCharacterData::remove(): void
public DOMCharacterData::replaceData(int $offset, int $count, string $data): bool
public DOMCharacterData::replaceWith(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void
public DOMCharacterData::substringData(int $offset, int $count): string|false
public DOMNode::appendChild(DOMNode $node): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::C14N(
 bool $exclusive = false,
 bool $withComments = false,
 ?array $xpath = null,
 ?array $nsPrefixes = null
): string|false
public DOMNode::C14NFile(
 string $uri,
 bool $exclusive = false,
 bool $withComments = false,
 ?array $xpath = null,
 ?array $nsPrefixes = null
): int|false
public DOMNode::cloneNode(bool $deep = false): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::compareDocumentPosition(DOMNode $other): int
public DOMNode::contains(DOMNode|DOMNameSpaceNode|null $other): bool
public DOMNode::getLineNo(): int
public DOMNode::getNodePath(): ?string
public DOMNode::getRootNode(?array $options = null): DOMNode
public DOMNode::hasAttributes(): bool
public DOMNode::hasChildNodes(): bool
public DOMNode::insertBefore(DOMNode $node, ?DOMNode $child = null): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::isDefaultNamespace(string $namespace): bool
public DOMNode::isEqualNode(?DOMNode $otherNode): bool
public DOMNode::isSameNode(DOMNode $otherNode): bool
public DOMNode::isSupported(string $feature, string $version): bool
public DOMNode::lookupNamespaceURI(?string $prefix): ?string
public DOMNode::lookupPrefix(string $namespace): ?string
public DOMNode::normalize(): void
public DOMNode::removeChild(DOMNode $child): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::replaceChild(DOMNode $node, DOMNode $child): DOMNode|false
public DOMNode::__sleep(): array
public DOMNode::__wakeup(): void
}

Properties

wholeText

Holds all the text of logically-adjacent (not separated by Element, Comment or Processing Instruction) Text nodes.

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 The unimplemented method DOMText::replaceWholeText() has been removed.

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