XML Helper - generate XML quickly and easily

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XML Helper - generate XML quickly and easily - El Forum - 03-23-2009

[eluser]Jérôme Jaglale[/eluser]
Download and documentation

New XML document

Code:
$dom = xml_dom();

Add "book" element

Code:
$book = xml_add_child($dom, 'book');

Add "title" to "book"

Code:
xml_add_child($book, 'title', 'Hyperion');

Add "author" to "book"

Code:
$author = xml_add_child($book, 'author', 'Dan Simmons');

Add "birthdate" attribute to "author"

Code:
xml_add_attribute($author, 'birthdate', '1948-04-04');

Display XML document

Code:
xml_print($dom);

Output

Code:
&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;

<book>

  &lt;title&gt;Hyperion&lt;/title&gt;

  <author birthdate="1948-04-04">Dan Simmons</author>

</book>

PHP 5 required. Based on DOMDocument.

XML Helper - generate XML quickly and easily - El Forum - 03-24-2009

[eluser]Kami_[/eluser]
Well done!

This will definitely come in handy.

XML Helper - generate XML quickly and easily - El Forum - 01-07-2010

[eluser]rezzz[/eluser]
The only issue here is that instead of

Code:
&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;

<book>

  &lt;title&gt;Hyperion&lt;/title&gt;

  <author birthdate="1948-04-04">Dan Simmons</author>

</book>

it's really creating

Code:
&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;

<book>

  &lt;title&gt;Hyperion

  <author birthdate="1948-04-04">Dan Simmons</author>

  &lt;/title&gt;

</book>

Anyone else notice this? Or better yet have an idea for a fix? Thank you very much!