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DOMDocument	Last updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026

DOMDocument::__construct

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMDocument::__construct — Creates a new DOMDocument object

public function DOMDocument::__construct(string $version = "1.0", string $encoding = "")

Creates a new DOMDocument object.

version: The version number of the document as part of the XML declaration.
encoding: The encoding of the document as part of the XML declaration.

Example #1 Creating a new DOMDocument

<?php

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');

echo $dom->saveXML(); /* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> */

?>