<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DomNode->replace_child</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Funciones de DOM XML" HREF="ref.domxml.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="DomNode->remove_child" HREF="function.domnode-remove-child.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DomNode->replace_node" HREF="function.domnode-replace-node.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.domnode-remove-child.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.domnode-replace-node.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.DomNode-replace-child" ></A >DomNode->replace_child</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN16345" ></A ><P > (no version information, might be only in CVS)</P >DomNode->replace_child -- Replaces a child </DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN16348" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >object <B CLASS="methodname" >DomNode->replace_child</B > ( object oldnode, object newnode)<BR ></BR ><P > (PHP 4.2) This function replaces the child <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >oldnode</I ></TT > with the passed new node. If the new node is already a child it will not be added a second time. If the old node cannot be found the function returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. If the replacement succeds the old node is returned. </P ><P > (PHP 4.3) This function replaces the child <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >oldnode</I ></TT > with the passed <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >newnode</I ></TT >, even if the new node already is a child of the DomNode. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >newnode</I ></TT > was already inserted in the document it is first unlinked from its existing context. If the old node cannot be found the function returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT >. If the replacement succeds the old node is returned. (This behaviour is according to the W3C specs). </P ><P > See also <B CLASS="function" >domnode_append_child()</B > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.domnode-remove-child.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.domnode-replace-node.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >DomNode->remove_child</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.domxml.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >DomNode->replace_node</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >