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The DOMText class

The DOMText class

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

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

Class synopsis

class DOMText extends DOMCharacterData {

/* 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 DOMNodeList $childNodes;

public readonly ?DOMNode $firstChild;

public readonly ?DOMNode $lastChild;

public readonly ?DOMNode $previousSibling;

public readonly ?DOMNode $nextSibling;

public readonly ?DOMNamedNodeMap $attributes;

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::appendData(string $data): bool

public DOMCharacterData::deleteData(int $offset, int $count): bool

public DOMCharacterData::insertData(int $offset, string $data): bool

public DOMCharacterData::replaceData(int $offset, int $count, string $data): bool

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::getLineNo(): int

public DOMNode::getNodePath(): ?string

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::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

}

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.

DOMText::__construct — Creates a new DOMText object
DOMText::isElementContentWhitespace — Returns whether this text node contains whitespace in element content
DOMText::isWhitespaceInElementContent — Indicates whether this text node contains whitespace
DOMText::splitText — Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset