PHP Manual: The DOMEntity class

Introduction

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

Class synopsis

DOMEntity

extends DOMNode

/* 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 stringnull $publicId;

public readonly stringnull $systemId;

public readonly stringnull $notationName;

public readonly stringnull $actualEncoding;

public readonly stringnull $encoding;

public readonly stringnull $version;

/* 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;

/* 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)

public array __sleep()

public void __wakeup()

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.
actualEncoding: Deprecated as of PHP 8.4.0. This has always been equal to null.
encoding: Deprecated as of PHP 8.4.0. This has always been equal to null.
version: Deprecated as of PHP 8.4.0. This has always been equal to null.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.4.0	`actualEncoding`, `encoding`, and `version` are formally deprecated now because they have always been equal to `null`.