January 31, 2002 - DOMDocument's Node Types

Yehuda Shiran January 31, 2002
DOMDocument's Node Types
Tips: January 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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The DOMDocument object is based on a tree structure. There are twelve different node types on this tree, from 1 to 12. Here they are, with their corresponding nodeTypeString property values:

TypenodeTypeString
1"element"
2"attribute"
3"text"
4"cdatasection"
5"entityreference"
6"entity"
7"processinginstruction"
8"comment"
9"document"
10"documenttype"
11"documentfragment"
12"notation"