Posted by ZeldorBlat on 10/23/07 13:13

On Oct 23, 5:22 am, bmic...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'd like to specify the DTD file for a DOMDocument on creation; so I
> can validate it.
> The DTD file already exists (let's call it content.dtd)
>
> $dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
> // Do something here to link cotnent.dtd to the DOMDocument. How do I
> do that?
>
> // Form the xml document.
> $dom->createElement('root_node');
> ...
>
> I found through the php documentation that I can validate xml content
> against a DTD if load the XML file (but not if I create it). Something
> like that (assuming the xml content is in file content.xml which
> specifies *<!DOCTYPE root_node SYSTEM "content.dtd">*):
>
> $dom = new DOMDocument;
> $dom->Load('content.xml');
> if ($dom->validate()) {
> // document is valid
>
> }

See this:

<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domimplementation-
createdocumenttype.php>

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