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    copied!<p>Okay, I'm a bit stumped. I'm more familiar with Python when manipulating XML, but I would like to use PHP in this instance if possible. </p> <p>Is there a relatively straightforward way to replace a chunk of text - all the children and values for a given node - in an XML file with another set of elements?</p> <p>Starting with this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;rdf:RDF xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:fedora="info:fedora/fedora-system:def/relations-external#" xmlns:myns="http://www.nsdl.org/ontologies/relationships#"&gt; &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="info:fedora/cfai:EB01a004"&gt; &lt;fedora:isMemberOfCollection rdf:resource="info:fedora/cfai:collection"/&gt; &lt;/rdf:Description&gt; &lt;/rdf:RDF&gt; </code></pre> <p>And I would like it to looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;rdf:RDF xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xmlns:fedora="info:fedora/fedora-system:def/relations-external#" xmlns:myns="http://www.nsdl.org/ontologies/relationships#"&gt; &lt;rdf:Description rdf:about="info:fedora/cfai:EB01a004"&gt; &lt;element&gt;These are new elements that I paste in.&lt;/element&gt; &lt;element&gt;This is another, basically just a string of elements&lt;/element&gt; &lt;/rdf:Description&gt; &lt;/rdf:RDF&gt; </code></pre> <p>I've got it loaded with <strong>simple_xml_loadfile</strong>, I've got the namespaces cooking with <strong>registerXPathNamespace</strong>, but I'm having an embarassingly hard time figuring out how to 1) remove nodes, and 2) insert my own chunk of text in their place.</p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>
 

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