I've got an XML formatted like so
<things>
<thing>
<name>foo</name>
<id>1</id>
</thing>
<thing>
<name>bar</name>
<id>2</id>
</thing>
</things>
And I've created a new <thing>
element with info from a form. When I do $dom->appendChild($newthing)
, it's appended to the end of the document, after </things>.
Like this
<things>
<thing>
<name>foo</name>
<id>1</id>
</thing>
<thing>
<name>bar</name>
<id>2</id>
</thing>
</things>
<thing>
<name>bar</name>
<id>2</id>
</thing>
Obviously I want my new element to be a child of the root element, not after it. How do I do that?
$dom->documentElement->appendChild($newthing);
From the PHP manual:
documentElement
This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child node that is the document element of the document.