<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Creating a simple XML document</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="xmlwriter.examples.html">Examples</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="example.xmlwriter-namespace.html">Working with XML namespaces</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="xmlwriter.examples.html">Examples</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="example.xmlwriter-simple" class="section"> <h2 class="title">Creating a simple XML document</h2> <p class="para"> This example shows how to use XMLWriter to create a XML document in memory. </p> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-6756"> <p><strong>Example #1 Creating a simple XML document</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$xw </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_open_memory</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_set_indent</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">1</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$res </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_set_indent_string</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">' '</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_document</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'1.0'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'UTF-8'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// A first element<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'tag1'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Attribute 'att1' for element 'tag1'<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_attribute</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'att1'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_text</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'valueofatt1'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_attribute</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_write_comment</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'this is a comment.'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Start a child element<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'tag11'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_text</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'This is a sample text, ä'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// tag11<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// tag1<br /><br /><br />// CDATA<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'testc'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_write_cdata</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"This is cdata content"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// testc<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'testc'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_cdata</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_text</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">"test cdata2"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_cdata</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_element</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">); </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// testc<br /><br />// A processing instruction<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_start_pi</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'php'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_text</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'$foo=2;echo $foo;'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_pi</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_end_document</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">xmlwriter_output_memory</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xw</span><span style="color: #007700">);</span> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <tag1 att1="valueofatt1"> <!--this is a comment.--> <tag11>This is a sample text, ä</tag11> </tag1> <testc><![CDATA[This is cdata content]]></testc> <testc><![CDATA[test cdata2]]></testc> <?php $foo=2;echo $foo;?> </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; 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