(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)
DOMDocumentFragment::appendXML — Append raw XML data
$data): boolAppends raw XML data to a DOMDocumentFragment.
This method is not part of the DOM standard. It was created as a simpler approach for appending an XML DocumentFragment in a DOMDocument.
If you want to stick to the standards, you will have to create a temporary DOMDocument with a dummy root and then loop through the child nodes of the root of your XML data to append them.
dataXML to append.
Returns true on success or false on failure.
Example #1 Appending XML data to your document
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML("<root/>");
$f = $doc->createDocumentFragment();
$f->appendXML("<foo>text</foo><bar>text2</bar>");
$doc->documentElement->appendChild($f);
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>
The above example will output:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <root><foo>text</foo><bar>text2</bar></root>