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The Dom\CharacterData class

The Dom\CharacterData class

(PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

Introduction

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

This is the modern, spec-compliant equivalent of DOMCharacterData.

Class synopsis

class Dom\CharacterData extends Dom\Node implements Dom\ChildNode {

/* Inherited constants */

public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x1;

public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x2;

public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x4;

public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x8;

public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;

public const int Dom\Node::DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;

/* Properties */

public readonly ?Dom\Element $previousElementSibling;

public readonly ?Dom\Element $nextElementSibling;

public string $data;

public readonly int $length;

/* Inherited properties */

public readonly int $nodeType;

public readonly string $nodeName;

public readonly string $baseURI;

public readonly bool $isConnected;

public readonly ?Dom\Document $ownerDocument;

public readonly ?Dom\Node $parentNode;

public readonly ?Dom\Element $parentElement;

public readonly Dom\NodeList $childNodes;

public readonly ?Dom\Node $firstChild;

public readonly ?Dom\Node $lastChild;

public readonly ?Dom\Node $previousSibling;

public readonly ?Dom\Node $nextSibling;

public ?string $nodeValue;

public ?string $textContent;

/* Methods */

public after(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void

public appendData(string $data): void

public before(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void

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

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

public remove(): void

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

public replaceWith(Dom\Node|string ...$nodes): void

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

/* Inherited methods */

/* Not documented yet */

}

Properties

previousElementSibling: The previous sibling element or null.
nextElementSibling: The next sibling element or null.
data: The contents of the node.
length: The length of the contents.

The Dom\CharacterData class

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