Void-Droid

You, sir, are a true genius! That was ist! You: the tags are wrong (since they've been changed to all-lowercase) Me: Yes, it seems the XML gets messy after echoing it out into the browser instead of saving it into a file! You: and the output shouldn't even be formatted Me: I did that myself for a better view You: This is the raw output of $xmlHandler->SaveXml() after enabling formatted output Me: After printing it out into a file, i got the same result. The conclusion: I wrote the saveXml-output into a file. This is the output (after formatting it by myself): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <RootNode> <NodeLevel1>Text1 - This node one has text</NodeLevel1> <NodeLevel2>Text2 - Next node Level3 level is not gonna have text <NodeLevel2_1>Text2_1 - This node will be a child of Level2, everything fine</NodeLevel2_1> </NodeLevel2> <NodeLevel3/> <NodeLevel4>Text4 - This node should be on same level like 3, 2 & 1, but instead it's a child of Level 3 (?!?!?!?!)</NodeLevel4> </RootNode> So were was the mess? I thoght it would be enough to print the XML out into the browser with echo and check it through the sourcecode. As you can see in my first post, i used echo with "<p style='display:none;'>" to somehow print out the result of my XML-Creation (because i didn't know how else). Therefore the XML-Creation was a full success from start up and the error i get from the response-Server lies somewhere else (from now on i can not rely on your help anymore)! Your solution made may day. Thank you very much!

I am working currently on an OOP based PHP project in MVC style. For my project i need to create/send/recieve/process XMLs. Now i have a BIG problem with creating XML-Structures with DOMDocument. Everytime i create a new XML-Node without an attributes or values, all nodes afterwards will be a child of this node! In other words: I can not create an empty XML-Node without all nodes afterwards beeing a child of this empty node!!! This problem bugs me for while now but I really need the way I am dealing right now with the XML creation. I couldn't find any solutions but some similar problems. This PHP tests my XmlHandler-Class, which creates the XML-Request: Test.php: <?php include "Handler/XmlHandler.php"; $xmlHandler=new XmlHandler(); $xmlHandler->CreateNewXmlInstance(); $root = $xmlHandler->CreateRootNode('RootNode'); $l1 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($root, "NodeLevel1", "Text1 - This node one has text"); $l2 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($root, "NodeLevel2", "Text2 - Next node Level3 level is not gonna have text"); $l21 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($l2, "NodeLevel2_1", "Text2_1 - This node will be a child of Level2, everything fine"); $l3 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($root, "NodeLevel3", ""); $l4 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($root, "NodeLevel4", "Text4 - This node should be on same level like 3, 2 & 1, but instead it's a child of Level 3 (?!?!?!?!)"); echo "<p style='display:none;'>".$xmlHandler->SaveXml()."</p>"; ?> Here is the XML-Handler Class which i use to create the XML-Request-Structure (i just posted the neccessary parts of the class here) XmlHandler.php: <?php class XmlHandler{ private $xml; /** * * Constructor * */ function __construct() { $this->xml=null; } //[...] /* * Custom XML-Creator Functions * */ public function CreateNewXmlInstance(){ /*********************************************/ /** XML DOM example of building XML Request **/ /*********************************************/ $this->xml = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); return $this->xml; } public function CreateRootNode($name){ $rootElement = $this->xml->appendChild( $this->xml->createElement($name) ); return $rootElement; } public function AppendNodeWithChild($node, $childName, $childText){ $result = $node->appendChild($this->xml->createElement($childName)); if(null != $childText && !empty($childText)){ $result->appendChild( $this->xml->createTextNode($childText) ); } return $result; } public function SetNodeAttributes($node, $nameAndValues){ if(null != $nameAndValues && sizeof($nameAndValues) > 0){ foreach($nameAndValues as $name => $value){ $this->SetNodeAttribute($node, $name, $value); } } } public function SetNodeAttribute($node, $name, $value){ $node->setAttribute($name, $value); } public function SaveXml(){ return $this->xml->saveXML(); } //[...] } ?> This is the Result: <!-- ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? --> <rootnode> <nodelevel1>Text1 - This node one has text</nodelevel1> <nodelevel2>Text2 - Next node Level3 level is not gonna have text <nodelevel2_1>Text2_1 - This node will be a child of Level2, everything fine</nodelevel2_1> </nodelevel2> <nodelevel3> <nodelevel4>Text4 - This node should be on same level like 3, 2 & 1, but instead it's a child of Level 3 (?!?!?!?!)</nodelevel4> </nodelevel3> </rootnode> But in theory, there should be somethign like that: <!-- ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? --> <rootnode> <nodelevel1>Text1 - This node one has text</nodelevel1> <nodelevel2>Text2 - Next node Level3 level is not gonna have text <nodelevel2_1>Text2_1 - This node will be a child of Level2, everything fine</nodelevel2_1> </nodelevel2> <nodelevel3/> <nodelevel4>Text4 - This node should be on same level like 3, 2 & 1, but instead it's a child of Level 3 (?!?!?!?!)</nodelevel4> </rootnode> As you can see: Something went wrong because i had not set a value for the new created Node on Level3!: $l3 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($root, "NodeLevel3", ""); $l4 = $xmlHandler->AppendNodeWithChild($root, "NodeLevel4", "Text4 - This node should be on same level like 3, 2 & 1, but instead it's a child of Level 3 (?!?!?!?!)"); As long as i set attributes or put in value sin the new created node, everything is fine. But i have some situations where also pure empty nodes have to be created! My questions are: What am I doing wrong here? Or does PHP do something wrong? Maybe my browser does a bad preparation of the XML, but the outgoing XML request was build and send correctly and the mistake lies something else? If so, how can I check the XML request though? And if nothing helps: What workaround solutions do you suggest? Greetz Void-Droid