Creating an XML in PHP using DOMDocument
In this tutorial you will learn how to create XML documents using PHP’s DOMDocument class.
First things first.There are 3 things that you should always keep in mind about XML. In short, XML has 3 main components.
Elements, which we also call nodes. e.g.
<name />
Attributes e.g
<name type="first"/>
Here type is an attribute.
Data/text nodes
<name type="first">Johnson</name>
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Quick PHP Tip: How to parse CDATA sections using SimpleXML
Applies to: simplexml_load_string and simplexml_load_file
Problem : SimpleXML does not parse text inside CDATA tags in an XML.
Consider the XML below:
$str = ‘<rootNode>’;
$str.=’<childNode>some text goes here</childNode>’;
$str.=’</rootNode>’;
To parse it we use following syntax:
$xml = simplexml_load_string($str);
On printing it outputs:
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[childNode] => some text goes here
)
Thats OK. Now the same xml but this time the [...]
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