The DOMCharacterData class

The DOMCharacterData class

Introduction

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

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

Class synopsis

class DOMCharacterData extends DOMNode {

/* Properties */

public string $data;

public readonly int $length;

/* Inherited properties */

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 appendData(string $data): bool

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

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

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

public substringData(int $offset, int $count): string|false

/* Inherited methods */

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

data

The contents of the node.

length

The length of the contents.

See Also

• » W3C specification of CharacterData

Table of Contents

• DOMCharacterData::appendData — Append the string to the end of the character data of the node
• DOMCharacterData::deleteData — Remove a range of characters from the node
• DOMCharacterData::insertData — Insert a string at the specified 16-bit unit offset
• DOMCharacterData::replaceData — Replace a substring within the DOMCharacterData node
• DOMCharacterData::substringData — Extracts a range of data from the node

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