\n or \t wont work

[gomesla]

I'm trying to create a class that gives me a XML list of my objects but when I call the function it does not display the breaks or anything in between the "<"

 

None of the /t or /n tags work.  Any idea why?

 

class XmlProductWriter extends ShopProductWriter {
public function write() {
	$str = "<products>\n";
	foreach ( $this->products as $shopProduct ) {
		$str .= "\t<product title=\"{$shopProduct->getTitle()}\">\n";
		$str .= "\t\t<summary>\n";
		$str .= "\t\t{$shopProduct->getProducer()}\n";
		$str .= "\t\t</summary>\n";
		$str .= "\t</product>\n";
	}
	$str .= "</products>\n";
	print $str;
}
}

[sasa]

are you look page source code or browser window?

[wildteen88]

Are you displaying the generated XML directly in the browser within an HTML page? If so web browsers do not display any form of whitespace characters (other than a single space) on the page. In order for a browser to display a new line within the page you need to use the line break tag (<br />).

[thebadbad]

If you want to display it in the browser, you can use htmlentities() and then print_r() it inside some pre tags.

 

<?php
$data = "<xml>\n\t<test></test>\n</xml>";
echo '<pre>', print_r(htmlentities($data), true), '</pre>';
?>

[Mchl]

I think that just making it a valid XML file will make browsers display it as such (apply default XSL)

[thebadbad]

I think that just making it a valid XML file will make browsers display it as such (apply default XSL)

 

If you serve it as XML through PHP, that is.

 

<?php
header('Content-type: application/xml');
//print data
?>