SimpleXMLElement Encoding

[williamZanelli]

Hi guys,

 

I'm constructing a PHP document, using SimpleXML- I want to set the encolding of the document to "ISO-8859-1" - how do I do this..

 

This prob is driving me nuts... Can someone please help?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Will

[MadTechie]

The encoding should already be set in the XML,

SimpleXML only converts XML to an object

[williamZanelli]

Its not set, 

 

The only thing is says is - <?xml version="1.0"?>

 

Not entirely sure how I can add the encoding to this. Surely its possible?

 

They have it in this example - http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/func_simplexml__construct.asp

 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

[MadTechie]

SimpleXML is for reading XML not writing.updating/changing xml,

DomDocument will allow you to change it, but your also need up encode the node's correctly,

 

why exactly are you trying got do and why ?

[williamZanelli]

Basically, I'm reading some XML, parsing from one source, and based on this and some other atrributes from my DB,

 

I'm constructing a new XML document.

 

Here's some sample code..

  $output = new SimpleXMLElement("<root></root>");

//Add other child nodes etc..

file_put_contents($this->filePath, $output->asXML());

 

Any idea how I could chnage the encoding of the outputed file?

 

Thanks for your help.

[MadTechie]

what do you mean your adding node ?

 

SimpleXML doesn't add nodes it can't create them!

 

any-ways if you just extracting parts then instead of re-writing it with a DomDocument, you could cheat!

 

file_put_contents($this->filePath, preg_replace('/<\?xml [^>]*>/im', '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>', $output->asXML());

[williamZanelli]

Awesome stuff MadTechie.. works like  charm

 

:D

[MadTechie]

Your welcome, please mark as solved (I'll do it this time )