PHP Manual: The DOMCharacterData class

Introduction

Represents nodes with character data. No nodes directly correspond to this class, but other nodes do inherit from it.

Class synopsis

DOMCharacterData

extends DOMNode

implements DOMChildNode

/* Properties */

public string $data;

public readonly int $length;

public readonly DOMElementnull $previousElementSibling;

public readonly DOMElementnull $nextElementSibling;

/* Inherited properties */

public readonly string $nodeName;

public stringnull $nodeValue;

public readonly int $nodeType;

public readonly DOMNodenull $parentNode;

public readonly DOMElementnull $parentElement;

public readonly DOMNodeList $childNodes;

public readonly DOMNodenull $firstChild;

public readonly DOMNodenull $lastChild;

public readonly DOMNodenull $previousSibling;

public readonly DOMNodenull $nextSibling;

public readonly DOMNamedNodeMapnull $attributes;

public readonly bool $isConnected;

public readonly DOMDocumentnull $ownerDocument;

public readonly stringnull $namespaceURI;

public string $prefix;

public readonly stringnull $localName;

public readonly stringnull $baseURI;

public string $textContent;

/* Methods */

public void DOMCharacterData::after(DOMNodestring ...$nodes)

public true DOMCharacterData::appendData(string $data)

public void DOMCharacterData::before(DOMNodestring ...$nodes)

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

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

public void DOMCharacterData::remove()

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

public void DOMCharacterData::replaceWith(DOMNodestring ...$nodes)

public stringfalse DOMCharacterData::substringData(int $offset, int $count)

/* Inherited methods */

public DOMNodefalse appendChild(DOMNode $node)

public stringfalse C14N(
    bool $exclusive = false,
    bool $withComments = false,
    arraynull $xpath = null,
    arraynull $nsPrefixes = null
)

public intfalse C14NFile(
    string $uri,
    bool $exclusive = false,
    bool $withComments = false,
    arraynull $xpath = null,
    arraynull $nsPrefixes = null
)

public DOMNodefalse cloneNode(bool $deep = false)

public int compareDocumentPosition(DOMNode $other)

public bool contains(DOMNodeDOMNameSpaceNodenull $other)

public int getLineNo()

public stringnull getNodePath()

public DOMNode getRootNode(arraynull $options = null)

public bool hasAttributes()

public bool hasChildNodes()

public DOMNodefalse insertBefore(DOMNode $node, DOMNodenull $child = null)

public bool isDefaultNamespace(string $namespace)

public bool isEqualNode(DOMNodenull $otherNode)

public bool isSameNode(DOMNode $otherNode)

public bool isSupported(string $feature, string $version)

public stringnull lookupNamespaceURI(stringnull $prefix)

public stringnull lookupPrefix(string $namespace)

public void normalize()

public DOMNodefalse removeChild(DOMNode $child)

public DOMNodefalse replaceChild(DOMNode $node, DOMNode $child)

Properties

data: The contents of the node.
length: The length of the contents.
nextElementSibling: The next sibling element or null.
previousElementSibling: The previous sibling element or null.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.0.0	The `nextElementSibling` and `previousElementSibling` properties have been added.
8.0.0	DOMCharacterData implements DOMChildNode now.

The DOMCharacterData class

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