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The DOMCharacterData class

The DOMCharacterData class

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

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

Class synopsis

class DOMCharacterData extends DOMNode implements DOMChildNode {

/* Inherited constants */

public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x1;

public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x2;

public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x4;

public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x8;

public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;

public const int DOMNode::DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;

/* Properties */

public string $data;

public readonly int $length;

public readonly ?DOMElement $previousElementSibling;

public readonly ?DOMElement $nextElementSibling;

/* Inherited properties */

public readonly string $nodeName;

public ?string $nodeValue;

public readonly int $nodeType;

public readonly ?DOMNode $parentNode;

public readonly ?DOMElement $parentElement;

public readonly DOMNodeList $childNodes;

public readonly ?DOMNode $firstChild;

public readonly ?DOMNode $lastChild;

public readonly ?DOMNode $previousSibling;

public readonly ?DOMNode $nextSibling;

public readonly ?DOMNamedNodeMap $attributes;

public readonly bool $isConnected;

public readonly ?DOMDocument $ownerDocument;

public readonly ?string $namespaceURI;

public string $prefix;

public readonly ?string $localName;

public readonly ?string $baseURI;

public string $textContent;

/* Methods */

public after(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void

public appendData(string $data): true

public before(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void

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

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

public remove(): void

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

public replaceWith(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void

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

/* Inherited methods */

public DOMNode::appendChild(DOMNode $node): DOMNode|false

public DOMNode::C14N(
    bool $exclusive = false,
    bool $withComments = false,
    ?array $xpath = null,
    ?array $nsPrefixes = null
): string|false

public DOMNode::C14NFile(
    string $uri,
    bool $exclusive = false,
    bool $withComments = false,
    ?array $xpath = null,
    ?array $nsPrefixes = null
): int|false

public DOMNode::cloneNode(bool $deep = false): DOMNode|false

public DOMNode::compareDocumentPosition(DOMNode $other): int

public DOMNode::contains(DOMNode|DOMNameSpaceNode|null $other): bool

public DOMNode::getLineNo(): int

public DOMNode::getNodePath(): ?string

public DOMNode::getRootNode(?array $options = null): DOMNode

public DOMNode::hasAttributes(): bool

public DOMNode::hasChildNodes(): bool