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<h1 class="refname">DOMDocument::saveXML</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMDocument::saveXML</span> — <span class="dc-title">
Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string
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<div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMDocument::saveXML</strong></span>
([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="class.domnode.html" class="type DOMNode">DOMNode</a></span> <code class="parameter">$node</code></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <code class="parameter">$options</code></span>
]] )</div>
<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Creates an XML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually
called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">node</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Use this parameter to output only a specific node without XML declaration
rather than the entire document.
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</dd>
</dt>
<dt>
<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">options</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Additional Options. Currently only <a href="libxml.constants.html" class="link">LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG</a> is supported.
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</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns the XML, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if an error occurred.
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<div class="refsect1 errors" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
<p class="para">
<dl>
<dt>
<span class="term"><strong><code>DOM_WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR</code></strong></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
Raised if <em><code class="parameter">node</code></em> is from another document.
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</dd>
</dt>
</dl>
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<div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-changelog">
<h3 class="title">Changelog</h3>
<p class="para">
<table class="doctable informaltable">
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Version</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody class="tbody">
<tr>
<td>5.1.0</td>
<td>
Added the <em><code class="parameter">options</code></em> parameter
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</tbody>
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
<div class="example" id="example-5417">
<p><strong>Example #1 Saving a DOM tree into a string</strong></p>
<div class="example-contents">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$doc </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'1.0'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// we want a nice output<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">formatOutput </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'book'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'title'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createTextNode</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'This is the title'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Saving all the document:\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">saveXML</span><span style="color: #007700">() . </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Saving only the title part:\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">saveXML</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
<div class="example-contents screen">
<div class="cdata"><pre>
Saving all the document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<book>
<title>This is the title</title>
</book>
Saving only the title part:
<title>This is the title</title>
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-domdocument.savexml-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
<ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.save.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::save()</a> - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.load.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::load()</a> - Load XML from a file</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.loadxml.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::loadXML()</a> - Load XML from a string</span></li>
</ul>
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