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PHP | DOMNode C14NFile() Function

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The DOMNode::C14NFile() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to canonicalize nodes to a file. Syntax:
int DOMNode::C14NFile( string $uri, bool $exclusive, 
bool $with_comments, array $xpath, array $ns_prefixes )
Parameters: This function accepts five parameters as mentioned above and described below:
  • $uri (Optional): It specifies the path to write the output to.
  • $exclusive (Optional): It specifies whether to enable exclusive parsing of only the nodes matched by the provided xpath or namespace prefixes.
  • $with_comments (Optional): It specifies whether to retain comments in output.
  • $xpath (Optional): It specifies an array of xpaths to filter the nodes by.
  • $ns_prefixes (Optional): It specifies an array of namespace prefixes to filter the nodes by.
Return Value: This function returns the number of bytes written or FALSE on failure Below examples illustrate the DOMNode::C14NFile() function in PHP: Example 1: In this example, we will save the DOM content in the form of string to a file without comments php
<?php

// Create a DOMDocument
$doc = new DOMDocument();
 
// Load XML
$doc->loadXML('<html></html>');
 
// Create an heading element on DOMDocument object
$h1 = $doc->createElement('h1');
 
// Append the child
$doc->documentElement->appendChild($h1);
 
// Save the data without comments
$stringdata = $doc->C14NFile('new.txt');
?>
Output:This will create a new.txt file with the following text content
<html><h1></h1></html>
Example 2: In this example, we will save the DOM content in the form of string to a file with comments. php
<?php

// Create a DOMDocument
$doc = new DOMDocument();

// Load XML
$doc->loadXML('<html><!-- This is a comment --></html>');

// Create an heading element on DOMDocument object
$h1 = $doc->createElement('h1');

// Append the child
$doc->documentElement->appendChild($h1);

// Save the data with comments
$stringdata = $doc->C14NFile('new.txt', false, true);
?>
Output: This will create a new.txt file with the following text content
<html><!-- This is a comment --><h1></h1></html>
Reference: https://www.php.net/manual/en/domnode.c14nfile.php

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