cleaning up an xml file

[digitalgod]

hey guys,

 

I was just wondering if there was a way to clean up the code in an xml file. Right now I'm using SimpleXML to add child nodes and whenever one gets appended it doesn't add a new line nor an indent, so it ends up looking something like this

 

<book>foo</book><book>bar</book>

[soycharliente]

Find/replace all? Maybe a preg_match or something.

</book><book> with </book>\n<book>

 

Dreamweaver does that too when you try to use the code tidy. I hate it. It does it with <table>.

[effigy]

tidy

[digitalgod]

I actually did try tidy but it didn't seem to do anything to the code... and libtidy is already installed on the server

 

this is what I tried, after writing to an xml file

$tidy_options = array(
			'input-xml'    => true,
			'output-xml'   => true,
			'indent'       => true,
			'indent-cdata' => true,
			'wrap'         => false,
		);
		$tidy = new tidy();
		$tidy->parseFile('file.xml', $tidy_options);
		$tidy->cleanRepair();

[digitalgod]

is there something else I should be doing in order for tidy to work?

[effigy]

I thought it was supposed to reformat the document. How does the output compare to the input?

[digitalgod]

it's actually exactly the same, nothing changed that's why I'm wondering if I did anything wrong