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Fukkatsu
Fukkatsu

Reputation: 159

Formatting an XML File

I currently am using simplexml_load_file(file.xml) to load an XML and $xmlRoot->saveXML('file.xml') to save an XML File,

The code does my goals but when ever I open the XML File where it saved, it always has either spaces from deleting nodes and/or very long lines of elements from adding nodes (1 parent element and all child elements in 1 line).

My question is how do I format it in a clean format via php code? (I want something similar to C#'s XMLDocument class where it formats itself when saved)

My current XML File is similar to this:

<rootElement>

     <parentElement><childElement>data</childElement></parentElement>

     <parentElement><childElement>data</childElement></parentElement>
</rootElement>

I want it to become something like this:

<rootElement>
     <parentElement>
        <childElement>data</childElement>
     </parentElement>
     <parentElement>
        <childElement>data</childElement>
     </parentElement>
</rootElement>

It looks clean now, but i have quite a large XML File which has multiple child elements per parent element

Thanks and cheers

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

Pep Lainez
Pep Lainez

Reputation: 959

Try to import the simpleXml into a DOMDocument, which offers some formatting options:

$simpleXml = simplexml_load_file('file.xml');
$xmlDom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
$xmlDom->formatOutput = true;
$xmlDom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$xmlDom->loadXML($simpleXml->asXML());
echo $xmlDom->saveXML();

Regards,

Upvotes: 1

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