How to import XML string in a php DOMDocument

Question

For exemple, i create a DOMDocument like that :

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Answer 1

You can use a DomDocumentFragment for this:

$fragment = $document->createDocumentFragment();
$fragment->appendXml($xhtml);
$elementBody->appendChild($fragment);

That's all there is to it...

Edit: Well, if you must have xhtml (instead of valid xml), you could do this dirty workaround:

function xhtmlToDomNode($xhtml) {
    $dom = new DomDocument();
    $dom->loadHtml(''.$xhtml.'');
    $fragment = $dom->createDocumentFragment();
    $body = $dom->getElementByTagName('body')->item(0);
    foreach ($body->childNodes as $child) {
        $fragment->appendChild($child);
    }
    return $fragment;
}

usage:

$fragment = xhtmlToDomNode($xhtml);
$document->importNode($fragment, true);
$elementBody->appendChild($fragment);