removing doctype while saving domdocument

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I am parsing and fetching html documents to DOMDocument. Those documents are child forms that will be displayed inside another page. While saving parsed DOMDocuments, it automatically adds doctype, html, head and body tags. since i am working on child forms i would like to remove all those and save only the child tags of form.

How can i skip automatic generation of html, head, body and other tags while saving domdocument?

Possible duplicate of [How to saveHTML of DOMDocument without HTML wrapper?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4879946/how-to-savehtml-of-domdocument-without-html-wrapper) — miken32, Nov 02 '18 at 02:07

score 31 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '12 at 05:27

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Same as @KoolKabin answer, but a little shorter:

return preg_replace('~<(?:!DOCTYPE|/?(?:html|body))[^>]*>\s*~i', '', $dom->saveHTML());

answered Apr 05 '12 at 05:27

Alix Axel

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score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 14 '17 at 08:58

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As of PHP 5.4 and Libxml 2.6, there is currently simpler approach: when you load html as this

$html->loadHTML($content, LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);

in the output, there will be no doctype, html or body tags. source

answered Dec 14 '17 at 08:58

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Please, take a look at this comment on a similar question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4879946/how-to-savehtml-of-domdocument-without-html-wrapper#comment103143168_22490902 – October Eleven Nov 09 '22 at 13:51

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '12 at 18:14

Got it myself after reading through hundreds of links. hope it helps other guys too...

return preg_replace('/^<!DOCTYPE.+?>/', '', str_replace( array('<html>', '</html>', '<body>', '</body>'), array('', '', '', ''), $objDOM->saveHTML()));

Detail on: http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.savehtml.php

removing doctype while saving domdocument

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