Introduction
on using PHP to create XML documents
You
can create XML documents using the PHP DOM. If you have worked earlier
in any script or language using DOM then you can very well work with
the PHP DOM too. As with other language you have to first create a new
document object.
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The
DOM has lot of function like createElement, createTextNode etc which
can be used to create an element and to create a text node for an element.
Then you can use add the textnode to an element and that element to
another element and so on using the appendChild function.
Suppose
you have create a new document object using the following command,
$domobj
= new DomDocument();
Then
you can create an element using command like,
$book
= $domobj->createElement("book");
$author = $domobj->createElement("author");
$authtext = $domobj->createTextNode("Jeffrey Archer");
Now
to add the elements to the document object, you have to perform the
following commands,
$author->appendChild($authtext);
$book->appendChild($author);
$domobj->documentElement->appendChild($book);
Now
you are free to save that XML file or print it out on the screen.
