note 105472 deleted from class.domdocumentfragment by danbrown

Note Submitter: outis ---- @Ricky: since a document fragment is a node, the behavior you describe is consistent (nodes without a document are read-only and cannot be inserted into a document tree before being imported). You can add a fragment created with new to a document using DOMDocument::importNode. However this is of little practical use in part because importNode creates a new node rather than altering the existing one. The other reason this helps little is the one you describe: the document fragment will be read-only until imported. <?php $fragment = new DOMDocumentFragment(); $fragment = $doc->importNode($fragment);