Twice as long... what??

So prove me wrong. Give us working code not twice as long.

The only thing that's long in my code is the function names. I realise that words longer than 4 letters are hard for you, but DOM designers decided to use clear names like textContent.

You solution is highly cryptic and you have to consult document

HAHA, you're so dumb. I bet the one you had to look up in the docs is parse_file.

• parse_file parses the file.
• $root = documentElement gets the root element.
• $node->textContent gets the node's text content.
• $node->findnodes('elem') finds "elem" nodes under the current node.
• $node->appendText appends text to the node.
• toFile puts the XML in a file.