Re: Handling XML output in a slim way

"Markus Fischer" <markus@fischer.name> wrote in message news:20040901143628.41572.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hi, > > up until now, when outputing XML I've been constructing the output as a continous string-soup in such ways like > > [...] > $xml .= printf('<item name="%s">%s</item>', makeXmlSave($name), makexmlSave($contentOfItem)); > [...] > > makeXmlSave() makes sure that quotes, ampersand, < and > are properly escaped with their entity reference. However I was thinking if it wasn't possible to e.g. generated a a complete DOM tree first and then just having this tree being dumped as XML. > > I'm using PHP4 right now. > > thanks, > - Markus > Hi Markus, take a look at this package: http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Tree Regards, Torsten Roehr