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# DOMNode::C14N

(PHP 5 >= 5.2.0)

DOMNode::C14N — Canonicalize nodes to a string

### Description

public string DOMNode::C14N ([ bool `$exclusive` [, bool `$with_comments` [, array `$xpath` [, array `$ns_prefixes` ]]]] )

Canonicalize nodes to a string

### Parameters

`exclusive`

  Enable exclusive parsing of only the nodes matched by the provided xpath or namespace prefixes.

`with_comments`

  Retain comments in output.

`xpath`

  An array of xpaths to filter the nodes by.

`ns_prefixes`

  An array of namespace prefixes to filter the nodes by.

### Return Values

Returns canonicalized nodes as a string or `FALSE` on failure

### See Also

- DOMNode::C14NFile() - Canonicalize nodes to a file

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