(PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)
Dom\Attr::rename — Changes the qualified name or namespace of an attribute
public Dom\Attr::rename(?string $namespaceURI, string $qualifiedName): void
This method changes the qualified name or namespace of an attribute.
namespaceURIqualifiedNameNo value is returned.
Dom\NAMESPACE_ERR
qualifiedName. Dom\INVALID_MODIFICATION_ERR
Example #1 Dom\Attr::rename() example to change both the namespace and qualified name
This changes the qualified name of my-attr to my-new-attr and also changes its namespace to urn:my-ns.
<?php
$doc = Dom\XMLDocument::createFromString('<root my-attr="value"/>');
$root = $doc->documentElement;
$attribute = $root->attributes['my-attr'];
$attribute->rename('urn:my-ns', 'my-new-attr');
echo $doc->saveXml();
?> The above example will output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root xmlns:ns1="urn:my-ns" ns1:my-new-attr="value"/>
Example #2 Dom\Attr::rename() example to change only the qualified name
This only changes the qualified name of my-attr and keeps the namespace URI the same.
<?php
$doc = Dom\XMLDocument::createFromString('<root my-attr="value"/>');
$root = $doc->documentElement;
$attribute = $root->attributes['my-attr'];
$attribute->rename($attribute->namespaceURI, 'my-new-attr');
echo $doc->saveXml();
?> The above example will output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root my-new-attr="value"/>
Note: It is sometimes necessary to change the qualified name and namespace URI together in one step to not break any namespace rules.
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