CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpsimplexml
Sheena
Sheena

Reputation: 16242

SimpleXMLElement->asXML() outputting bad string

I have a php function that converts an object hierarchy to xml. asXML is not working as expected. Can anybody tell me why this:

            $oReportXML = new SimpleXMLElement("<report></report>");
    $oReportXML->addChild('details');
    $oReportXML->addChild('configuration');
    $oReportXML->addChild('datasources');
    $oReportXML->addChild('styles');
    $oReportXML->addChild('classes');
    $oReportXML->addChild('tables');

    $oReportXML->details->addChild('author',$this->iAuthor);
    $oReportXML->details->addChild('date_created',$this->iDateCreated);
    $oReportXML->details->addChild('date_modified',$this->iLastModifiedDate);
    $oReportXML->details->addChild('modified_by',$this->iLastModifiedBy);
    $oReportXML->details->addChild('id',$this->iReportID);
    print_r($this);
    print "<p>".$oReportXML->asXML()."</p>";

would output this:

Report Object ( [iAuthor] => 1 [iDateCreated] => 11 [iLastModifiedDate] => 1330435328 [iLastModifiedBy] => 1378 [iReportID] => 0 [sSubject] => sSubject [iCategory] => iCategory [sKeywords] => sKeywords [sDescription] => sDescription [sTitle] => IGNORE_ME [aTables] => Array ( ) [aClasses] => Array ( ) [aDataSources] => Array ( ) [aStyles] => Array ( ) [oParent:private] => )

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2035

Answers (2)

akond
akond

Reputation: 16045

 print "<p>".htmlentities ($oReportXML->asXML())."</p>";

I think if you look into the source the xml is in there, but since you're looking it via browser which happens to dismiss all the tags, you're seeing only text nodes.

Upvotes: 3

Maxim Krizhanovsky
Maxim Krizhanovsky

Reputation: 26719

if you are looking the output in the browser, you will see only the values, as browsers do not visualize tags. Look at source code, or add header('Content-type:text/xml'); to tell the browser it should display XML

Upvotes: 0

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