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vidulaJ
vidulaJ

Reputation: 1270

XML DOM structure in PHP

How can I achieve the below XML DOM structure in PHP?

XML structure

Could you please help me out with this? Any suggestions, help is much appreciated.

Edit
I have attached the attempted code. It doesn't work & I don't know how I can break that like I've attached above.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (2)

Dmitriy Z
Dmitriy Z

Reputation: 383

To create correct XML file you must declare elements as namespaces:

$employees   = array();
$employees[] = array('name' => 'Albert', 'age' => 34, 'salary' => 10000, 'lname' => 'Vidula');

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');

$domEmployees = $dom->createElement('employees');

foreach($employees as $employee)
{
    $domEmployee = $dom->createElement('employee');

    $domEmployee->appendChild($dom->createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'name:fname', $employee['name']));
    $domEmployee->appendChild($dom->createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml', 'name:lname', $employee['lname']));
    $domEmployee->appendChild($dom->createElement('age', $employee['age']));
    $domEmployee->appendChild($dom->createElement('salary', $employee['salary']));

    $domEmployees->appendChild($domEmployee);
}


$dom->appendChild($domEmployees);

echo $dom->saveXML();

Outputs:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<employees xmlns:name="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <employee xmlns:name="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <name:fname xmlns:name="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Albert</name:fname>
       <name:lname xmlns:name="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Vidula</name:lname>               
       <age>34</age>
       <salary>10000</salary>
    </employee>
</employees>

Upvotes: 1

DanMan
DanMan

Reputation: 11562

This is not how it works:

$doc->createElement("name:lname");

The element's name is actually lname and name is the handle of the namespace, which you must have defined somewhere. Then you need to use createElementNS() instead.

Upvotes: 1

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