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DOMNode::getLineNo

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)

DOMNode::getLineNoGet line number for a node

Description

public int DOMNode::getLineNo ( void )

Gets line number for where the node is defined.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Always returns the line number where the node was defined in.

Examples

Example #1 DOMNode::getLineNo() example

<?php
// XML dump for below example
$xml = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
    <node />
</root>
XML;

// Create a new DOMDocument instance
$dom = new DOMDocument;

// Load the XML
$dom->loadXML($xml);

// Print where the line where the 'node' element was defined in
printf('The <node> tag is defined on line %d'$dom->getElementsByTagName('node')->item(0)->getLineNo());
?>

The above example will output:

The <node> tag is defined in line 3


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