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DOMNode->appendChild

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DOMNode->appendChild --  Adds new child at the end of the children

Description

DOMNode DOMNode->appendChild ( DOMNode newnode)

This functions appends a child to an existing list of children or creates a new list of children. The child can be created with e.g. DOMDocument->createElement(), DOMDocument->createTextNode() etc. or simply by using any other node.

Throws DOMException if node cannot be appended.

The following example will add a new element node to a fresh document.

Example 1. Adding a child

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$node = $doc->createElement("para");
$newnode = $doc->appendChild($node);
print $doc->saveXML();
?>

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