XML DOM Tutorial

W3C provides a standard called DOM (Document Object Model) for HTML & XML documents. DOM is also used as an interface for accessing and manipulating HTML & XML documents.DOM is a convention for representing and interacting with HTML, XML document objects, it is platform and language independent.

In the example below we create an object called $xml of DOMDocument class, and we access load() and saveXML() functions of it.

Example

phpDom.php

<?php

$xml=new DOMDocument();

$xml->load("MyFirst.xml");

print $xml->saveXML();

MyFirst.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<lang>
<php>
PHP is very easy to learn
</php>
<Java>
Java is the king of open source language
</Java>
</lang>

Output:

PHP is very easy to learn Java is the king of open source language