DOMDocument::importNode
If you are loading xml with the intention of validating it against an internal dtd and you have experienced issues with the validation it could be related to missing LIBXML constants.
I found this post by "aidan at php dot net" in root level dom docs and thought it might be more useful here:
As of PHP 5.1, libxml options may be set using constants rather than the use of proprietary DomDocument properties.
DomDocument->resolveExternals is equivilant to setting
LIBXML_DTDLOAD
LIBXML_DTDATTR
DomDocument->validateOnParse is equivilant to setting
LIBXML_DTDLOAD
LIBXML_DTDVALID
PHP 5.1 users are encouraged to use the new constants.
Example:
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument;
// Resolve externals
$dom->load($file, LIBXML_DTDLOAD|LIBXML_DTDATTR);
// OR
// Validate against DTD
$dom->load($file, LIBXML_DTDLOAD|LIBXML_DTDVALID);
$dom->validate();
?>
DOMDocument::load
(No version information available, might be only in CVS)
DOMDocument::load — Charge du XML depuis un fichier
Description
Charge un document XML depuis un fichier.
Avertissement
Les chemins de style Unix avec des antislash peuvent conduire à des réductions de performance sous les systèmes Windows ; assurez-vous d'appeler la fonction realpath().
Liste de paramètres
- filename
-
Le chemin vers le document XML.
- options
-
L'opérateur OR des constantes de libxml.constants.php.
Valeurs de retour
Cette fonction retourne TRUE en cas de succès, FALSE en cas d'échec. Si appelé statiquement, retourne un DOMDocument mais une alerte de type E_STRICT sera émise.
Erreurs / Exceptions
Si une chaîne vide est passée comme paramètre filename ou si le fichier est vide, une alerte sera générée. Cette alerte n'est pas générée par libxml, et ne peut être gérée en utilisant les fonctions de gestion d'erreur de libxml.
Exemples
Exemple #1 Création d'un Document
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>
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User Contributed NotesDOMDocument::load
darren at viamedia dot co dot za
05-Aug-2008 04:17
05-Aug-2008 04:17
the_N_Channel
16-Jul-2008 01:53
16-Jul-2008 01:53
NOTE, will not load successfully if there is a comment at the beginning of the file before the <?xml version="1.0" ?> declaration!
hh dot lohmann at yahoo dot de
30-Aug-2007 12:48
30-Aug-2007 12:48
BadGuy´s note may be confusing since what he depicts is no special property of the relevant method. PHP works always in and on a local file system which means that if you want to use resources from other systems or - what is, indeed, BadGuy´s problem - need resources that have been dealt with by other programs or processes, you have to state and manage that explicitly in your code. PHP is just a quite normal program in that.
BadGuy´s solution is using the "http wrapper" to get output from another process (see "wrappers" in the PHP manual). Doing this, the appropriate syntax for http calls has to be respected.
admin at tijnema dot tijnema dot info
02-Jun-2007 01:39
02-Jun-2007 01:39
In reply to BadGuy [at] BadGuy [dot] nl
When the news.php file is located on the same server, like you said in the first example then http://my.beautiful-website.com/xmlsource/news.php wouldn't work, but you should use http://localhost/xmlsource/news.php or http://127.0.0.1/xmlsource/news.php
BadGuy [at] BadGuy [dot] nl
18-Jan-2007 05:50
18-Jan-2007 05:50
Note that this method uses the local file system before doing anything remote. The 'disadvantage' would be that if you would do the following:
<?php
$xml = new DOMDocument;
$xml->load("xmlsource/news.php");
?>
This would not make the method read the actual output of the news.php file --presumably valid xml data--, but the file contents --obviously this would be php code. So this will return an error saying news.php is missing the xml declaration and maybe the xml start-tag
What would work is the following:
<?php
$xml = new DOMDocument;
$xml->load("http://my.beautiful-website.com/xmlsource/news.php");
?>
This will force a http request to be used to get this file instead of just locally reading it and the file just returning code
daevid at daevid dot com
19-Oct-2005 02:08
19-Oct-2005 02:08
Suppose you wanted to dynamically load an array from an .XSD file. This method is your guy. just remember to use the actual xs: portion in xpaths and such.
All the other "load" methods will error out.
<?php
$attributes = array();
$xsdstring = "/htdocs/api/xsd/common.xsd";
$XSDDOC = new DOMDocument();
$XSDDOC->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
if ($XSDDOC->load($xsdstring))
{
$xsdpath = new DOMXPath($XSDDOC);
$attributeNodes =
$xsdpath->
query('//xs:simpleType[@name="attributeType"]')
->item(0);
foreach ($attributeNodes->childNodes as $attr)
{
$attributes[ $attr->getAttribute('value') ] = $attr->getAttribute('name');
}
unset($xsdpath);
}
print_r($attributes);
?>