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DomNode->previous_sibling	DomNode->replace_child

	Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

DomNode->remove_child

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DomNode->remove_child — Removes child from list of children

Description

domtext DomNode->remove_child ( domtext $oldchild )

This functions removes a child from a list of children. If child cannot be removed or is not a child the function will return FALSE. If the child could be removed the functions returns the old child.

Example #1 Removing a child


<?php

include("example.inc");



if (!$dom = domxml_open_mem($xmlstr)) {

  echo "Error while parsing the document\n";

  exit;

}



$elements = $dom->get_elements_by_tagname("tbody");

$element = $elements[0];

$children = $element->child_nodes();

$child = $element->remove_child($children[0]);



echo "<PRE>";

$xmlfile = $dom->dump_mem(true);

echo htmlentities($xmlfile);

echo "</PRE>";

?>

See also domnode_append_child().

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