DOMCharacterData Function appendData

PHP Version: (No version information, might be only in CVS. I have used this function in PHP5)

DOM: W3C DOM Level 1

Description

Append the string to the end of the character data of the node. The node is a DOM node.

Usage:

void DOMCharacterData->appendData ( string data)

Append the string data to the end of the character data of the node.

Example:

The XML file, which I have used contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<employee>

            <employeename>test</employeename>

            <employeeaddress>test123</employeeaddress>

            <SSN>12343456</SSN>

                        <company>TOPXML</company>

</employee>

PHP Code:

<?php

    $doc = new DomDocument;

// Load the xml file into DOMDocument

$doc->Load('C:/topxml_demo/php/xml_files/employee.xml');

// We retrieve the attribute named id of the employee element

$employee = $doc->getElementsByTagName('employee')->item(0);

//Create a new Element

$newElement = $doc ->createElement('surname');

//create a Text Node

$textNode = $doc ->createTextNode ("Text Node Created");

//append the Text Node into the newly created node

$newElement -> appendChild($textNode);

//append the new element to the employee element

$employee  -> appendChild($newElement);

//save the DOMDocument into a file

$test = $doc->save("C:/topxml_demo/php/xml_files/save1.xml");

 echo "<B>DOMCharacterData->appendData example<B>"

 ?>

Output:

The Content of save1.xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<employee>

               <employeename>test</employeename>

               <employeeaddress>test123</employeeaddress>

               <SSN>12343456</SSN>

               <company>TOPXML</company>

               <!-- I created a element and added text node into the new element -->

               <surname>Text Node Created</surname>

</employee>