Howto: Remove XML, doctype and top-level namespace declarations from DOMDocument

From: Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:10:58 +0000
Subject: Howto: Remove XML, doctype and top-level namespace declarations from DOMDocument
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Hi all,

This silly little problem took quite a while to figure out without using any regular expression hacks, so here goes (example using XHTML namespace):

// Initialize
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load('somefile.xhtml');

// Remove XHTML namespace declaration
$doc->documentElement->removeAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml',

                                         '');


// Get the XML contents without XML and doctype declarations
$text => $doc->saveXML($doc->documentElement))

// Now you can use this to e.g. process several XML documents in XSLT
$proc->setParameter(NULL,

                    array_merge($other_params, array('text' => $text));


PS: I tried to submit this as a PHP documentation note, but my IP is blocked for some reason.

PPS: Coming soon to a website near you ;)

-- 
Victor Engmark

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