appendData() DOM

Hello everyone. I've been looking for examples on this:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functi...-appenddata.php

but can't really find one. I've got a function that generates a return value
in HTML, and need to append that to the body tag of my document. So I've
captured the contents of the page with output buffering, and have loaded it
into the PHP DOM. I've isolated the body element:

,----[ php ]
$dom = new DomDocument;
$dom->LoadHTML($buffer);
$body = $dom->getElementsByTagName('body');
$body = $body->item(0);
`----

And want to do the following:

,----[ php ]
$body->appendData($html);
`----

Of course as the appendData method is a member of the DOMCharacterData
class, I get an error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined method DOMElement::appendData()

But how can I access the appendData() method to get the results I want?

Thanks everyone,

James

ps. This is my first post to a newsgroup... Sorry if I'm posting this
improperly or something.

James wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello everyone. I've been looking for examples on this:
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/functi...-appenddata.php
>
> but can't really find one. I've got a function that generates a
> return value in HTML, and need to append that to the body tag of my
> document. So I've captured the contents of the page with output
> buffering, and have loaded it into the PHP DOM. I've isolated the
> body element:
>[/color]

CDATA is data encapsuled between '<![CDATA[' and ']]>' markers. The
advantage of CDATA sections is that you can put anything in between,
including invalid xml and/or characters as these sections are ignored by the
parser.

But what you probably need is just to append a value to the body tag's node
value, which is done as follows:

$buffer = '<html><body>bla</body></html>';
$dom = new DomDocument;
$dom->LoadHTML($buffer);
$body = $dom->getElementsByTagName('body');
$body->item(0)->nodeValue .= ' bla';

// Prints: <html><body>bla bla</body></html>
print $dom->saveHTML();
[color=blue]
> ps. This is my first post to a newsgroup... Sorry if I'm posting this
> improperly or something.[/color]

Posting is fine and even better then from some 'experienced' posters.

JW

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:
[color=blue]
> CDATA is data encapsuled between '<![CDATA[' and ']]>' markers. The
> advantage of CDATA sections is that you can put anything in between,
> including invalid xml and/or characters as these sections are ignored by
> the parser.[/color]

Perect, this is just what I was looking for. Thank you!
[color=blue]
>
> $buffer = '<html><body>bla</body></html>';
> $dom = new DomDocument;
> $dom->LoadHTML($buffer);
> $body = $dom->getElementsByTagName('body');
> $body->item(0)->nodeValue .= ' bla';
>
> // Prints: <html><body>bla bla</body></html>
> print $dom->saveHTML();
>[/color]

I was actually really trying to do something very similar to what you've got
above. My issue was that when I set

$body->item(0)->nodeValue .= '<b>blah</b>';

The tags would get a treatment with htmlentities(). I tried turning that
behavior off:

$dom->substituteEntities = false;

But that didn't really do what I wanted. The CDATA markers do exactly what I
need.
[color=blue]
> Posting is fine and even better then from some 'experienced' posters.[/color]

Flattered :)

Thanks again,
James

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