How to modify a template

As a string

$configurator = new s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator;
$configurator->BBCodes->addFromRepository('URL');

// Add a target="_blank" attribute to the URL tag's template using
// a pattern replacement
$tag = $configurator->tags['URL'];
$tag->template = preg_replace(
    '(<a\\b(?![^>]*target))',
    '<a target="_blank"',
    $tag->template
);

extract($configurator->finalize());

$text = '[url]http://example.org[/url]';
$xml  = $parser->parse($text);
$html = $renderer->render($xml);

echo $html;
<a target="_blank" href="http://example.org" rel="noreferrer">http://example.org</a>

As a DOM tree

$configurator = new s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator;
$configurator->BBCodes->addFromRepository('URL');

// Get the default URL template as a DOMDocument
$dom = $configurator->tags['URL']->template->asDOM();

// Set a target="_blank" attribute to any <a> element
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $a)
{
    $a->setAttribute('target', '_blank');
}

// Save the changes
$dom->saveChanges();

// Test the new template
extract($configurator->finalize());

$text = '[url]http://example.org[/url]';
$xml  = $parser->parse($text);
$html = $renderer->render($xml);

echo $html;
<a href="http://example.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://example.org</a>

Starting with version 2.15.0, DOM manipulation is enhanced with the SweetDOM 3.0 API. In the following example, we showcase two different ways to achieve the same result: add an attribute to a elements if a given parameter is set. In one case we add target="_blank" if $NEWTAB is set, and in the other we set rel="ugc" if $UGC is set.

$configurator = new s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator;
$configurator->BBCodes->addFromRepository('URL');

// Modify the template
$dom = $configurator->tags['URL']->template->asDOM();
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $a)
{
    $a->prependXslIf(test: '$NEWTAB')
      ->appendXslAttribute(name: 'target', textContent: '_blank');

    $a->prependXslIf('$UGC')->appendXslAttribute('rel', 'ugc');
}
$dom->saveChanges();

// Test the new template
extract($configurator->finalize());

$text = '[url]http://example.org[/url]';
$xml  = $parser->parse($text);

$renderer->setParameter('NEWTAB', '');
$renderer->setParameter('UGC',    '');
echo $renderer->render($xml), "\n";

$renderer->setParameter('NEWTAB', '1');
$renderer->setParameter('UGC',    '1');
echo $renderer->render($xml);
<a href="http://example.org">http://example.org</a>
<a href="http://example.org" rel="ugc" target="_blank">http://example.org</a>