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WP_HTML_Processor::create_fragment_at_current_node( string $html ): static|null

Since
6.8.0
Source
wp-includes/html-api/class-wp-html-processor.php:484
Creates a fragment processor at the current node.

Description

HTML Fragment parsing always happens with a context node. HTML Fragment Processors can be instantiated with a BODY context node via WP_HTML_Processor::create_fragment( $html ).

The context node may impact how a fragment of HTML is parsed. For example, consider the HTML fragment <td />Inside TD?</td>.

A BODY context node will produce the following tree:

└─#text Inside TD?

Notice that the <td> tags are completely ignored.

Compare that with an SVG context node that produces the following tree:

├─svg:td
└─#text Inside TD?

Here, a td node in the svg namespace is created, and its self-closing flag is respected.
This is a peculiarity of parsing HTML in foreign content like SVG.

Finally, consider the tree produced with a TABLE context node:

└─TBODY
 └─TR
 └─TD
 └─#text Inside TD?

These examples demonstrate how important the context node may be when processing an HTML fragment. Special care must be taken when processing fragments that are expected to appear in specific contexts. SVG and TABLE are good examples, but there are others.

Compatibility

WordPress
since 6.8.0
PHP
7.4–8.6-dev
  • 6.7.7
  • 6.8.8
  • 6.9.7
  • 7.0.4
  • 7.1.0

Present in 4 of the 5 tracked releases, added in 6.8.0, and compiles on PHP 7.4 through 8.6-dev.

Parameters

$htmlstring
Input HTML fragment to process.

Return value

static|null
The created processor if successful, otherwise null.

Performance profile

How much work a call to WP_HTML_Processor::create_fragment_at_current_node() does, and what it touches: the algorithmic scaling, the Zend instruction count per call across PHP versions, the hooks it hands control to, and the core code that calls it. Measured from the compiled opcodes, not a stopwatch, so every number is identical on any machine running the same PHP version, and every function in core is ranked by cost.

Cost class
Light

Touches nothing outside its own arguments.

Scaling
Scales with input

The body loops, so the work grows with what you pass in.

Instructions
14–124

Executed per call on PHP 8.5, depending on the branch taken. The body compiles to 160.

Plugin surface
None

Nothing here hands control to plugin code.

Called by
0

Nothing in core calls this; the cost is only what you spend yourself.

What it touches

  • hookthird-party callbacksdo_action()one call below WP_HTML_Processor::create_fragment_at_current_node()

Further down the call graph this can also reach query, option, cache, serialize and transient. Those are the worst case, several calls deep and usually down an error path, not what a normal call pays.

What one call costs · 6 distinct outcomes

One number would be a lie: the work depends on which branch runs. These are every distinct cost WP_HTML_Processor::create_fragment_at_current_node() can have, taken from its control-flow graph on PHP 8.5.

WhenInstructionsCalls it makes
always14->get_token_type(), __(), _doing_it_wrong()
->is_tag_closer()17->get_token_type(), ->is_tag_closer(), __(), _doing_it_wrong()
!->is_tag_closer() && $tag_name33->get_token_type(), ->is_tag_closer(), __(), sprintf(), _doing_it_wrong()
!->is_tag_closer() && $namespace === "html"33–37->get_token_type(), ->is_tag_closer(), ::is_void(), __(), sprintf(), _doing_it_wrong()
!->is_tag_closer() && $namespace !== "html"93–120->get_token_type(), ->is_tag_closer(), ->push(), ->reset_insertion_mode_appropriately(), ->walk_up(), ->change_parsing_namespace()
!->is_tag_closer() && $namespace === "html" && !::is_void()97–124->get_token_type(), ->is_tag_closer(), ::is_void(), ->push(), ->reset_insertion_mode_appropriately(), ->walk_up(), ->change_parsing_namespace()

Across PHP versions

Compiles the same on PHP 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6-dev: 160 instructions, 14–124 executed per call, 12 branches. The work does not change between versions.

An instruction is not a fixed amount of time, so a matching count is not necessarily the same speed; what it rules out is a difference in the work itself.

Uses · 8

Source code

	private function create_fragment_at_current_node( string $html ) {		if ( $this->get_token_type() !== '#tag' || $this->is_tag_closer() ) {			_doing_it_wrong(				__METHOD__,				__( 'The context element must be a start tag.' ),				'6.8.0'			);			return null;		} 		$tag_name  = $this->current_element->token->node_name;		$namespace = $this->current_element->token->namespace; 		if ( 'html' === $namespace && self::is_void( $tag_name ) ) {			_doing_it_wrong(				__METHOD__,				sprintf(					// translators: %s: A tag name like INPUT or BR.					__( 'The context element cannot be a void element, found "%s".' ),					$tag_name				),				'6.8.0'			);			return null;		} 		/*		 * Prevent creating fragments at nodes that require a special tokenizer state.		 * This is unsupported by the HTML Processor.		 */		if (			'html' === $namespace &&			in_array( $tag_name, array( 'IFRAME', 'NOEMBED', 'NOFRAMES', 'SCRIPT', 'STYLE', 'TEXTAREA', 'TITLE', 'XMP', 'PLAINTEXT' ), true )		) {			_doing_it_wrong(				__METHOD__,				sprintf(					// translators: %s: A tag name like IFRAME or TEXTAREA.					__( 'The context element "%s" is not supported.' ),					$tag_name				),				'6.8.0'			);			return null;		} 		$fragment_processor = new static( $html, self::CONSTRUCTOR_UNLOCK_CODE ); 		$fragment_processor->compat_mode = $this->compat_mode; 		// @todo Create "fake" bookmarks for non-existent but implied nodes.		$fragment_processor->bookmarks['root-node'] = new WP_HTML_Span( 0, 0 );		$root_node                                  = new WP_HTML_Token(			'root-node',			'HTML',			false		);		$fragment_processor->state->stack_of_open_elements->push( $root_node ); 		$fragment_processor->bookmarks['context-node']   = new WP_HTML_Span( 0, 0 );		$fragment_processor->context_node                = clone $this->current_element->token;		$fragment_processor->context_node->bookmark_name = 'context-node';		$fragment_processor->context_node->on_destroy    = null; 		$fragment_processor->breadcrumbs = array( 'HTML', $fragment_processor->context_node->node_name ); 		if ( 'TEMPLATE' === $fragment_processor->context_node->node_name ) {			$fragment_processor->state->stack_of_template_insertion_modes[] = WP_HTML_Processor_State::INSERTION_MODE_IN_TEMPLATE;		} 		$fragment_processor->reset_insertion_mode_appropriately(); 		/*		 * > Set the parser's form element pointer to the nearest node to the context element that		 * > is a form element (going straight up the ancestor chain, and including the element		 * > itself, if it is a form element), if any. (If there is no such form element, the		 * > form element pointer keeps its initial value, null.)		 */		foreach ( $this->state->stack_of_open_elements->walk_up() as $element ) {			if ( 'FORM' === $element->node_name && 'html' === $element->namespace ) {

Changelog

Introduced in 6.8.0. Unchanged from 6.8.8 through 7.1.0.

  1. 6.8.8
  2. 6.9.7
  3. 7.0.4
  4. 7.1.0

Signature, return type and hooks compared across 4 parsed releases.

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