SimpleXML: Can't insert child into node with attributes

Question

I need to code a web service that creates a FM XML file.

The expected output file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<FMPXMLRESULT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult">
  <ERRORCODE>0</ERRORCODE>
  <PRODUCT BUILD="27/11/2002" NAME="FileMaker Pro" VERSION="6.0Dv4"/>
  <DATABASE DATEFORMAT="d.M.yyyy" LAYOUT="" NAME="Schlüssel Adresse für green" RECORDS="3" TIMEFORMAT="k:mm:ss"/>
  <METADATA>
    <FIELD EMPTYOK="YES" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Datum" TYPE="DATE"/>
    <FIELD EMPTYOK="YES" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Sprache Typ" TYPE="TEXT"/>
...
 </METADATA>
   <RESULTSET FOUND="3">
    <ROW MODID="0" RECORDID="1">
      <COL>
        <DATA>12.11.2012</DATA>
      </COL>
...
    </ROW>
  </RESULTSET>
</FMPXMLRESULT>

This is my php code:

 $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<FMPXMLRESULT xmlns="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult"></FMPXMLRESULT>');
 $xml->addChild('ERRORCODE',0);
 $xml->addChild('PRODUCT BUILD="27/11/2002" NAME="FileMaker Pro" VERSION="6.0Dv4"');
 $xml->addChild('DATABASE DATEFORMAT="d.M.yyyy" LAYOUT=" " NAME="Schlüssel Adresse für green" RECORDS="3" TIMEFORMAT="k mm ss" ');
 $node = $xml->addChild('METADATA');
 $node->addChild('FIELD EMPTYOK="YES" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Datum" TYPE="DATE"');
 $node->addChild('FIELD EMPTYOK="YES" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Sprache Typ" TYPE="TEXT"');

 ...

$node = $xml->addChild('RESULTSET FOUND="3"');
$node->addChild('FIELD EMPTYOK="YES" MAXREPEAT="1" NAME="Datum" TYPE="DATE"');

There are two things that I can't get to work:

• The TIMEFORMAT="k:mm:ss" in the DATABASE node provokes the following error. Removing the colons ':' solves the error message problem but won't produce the same file

  error on line 2 at column 80: error parsing attribute name

• As soon as there is 'FOUND="3"' AND a child in the RESULTSET, the RESULTSET node provokes an error. It does not cause any error if there is no child. No error if the FOUND="3" is removed.

  This page contains the following errors:

  error on line 2 at column 2199: expected '>'

Any help much appreciated!

Answer 1

Solved both cases by using the

 $node->addAttribute("...","...")

method that SimpleXML provides.