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^DOMNodeLast updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026

DOMNode::getLineNo

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMNode::getLineNo — Get line number for a node

Description

public function DOMNode::getLineNo(): int

Gets line number for where the node was defined at parse time.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns the line number where the node was defined at parse time. If the node was created manually, the return value will be 0.

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 on line 3


<DOMNode::containsDOMNode::getNodePath>
^DOMNodeLast updated: Mon, 26 Oct 2026