note 102361 added to class.simplexmlelement

Simple recursive function to append XML object into SimpleXMLElement node: <?php // root: parent element - SimpleXMLElement instance // append: XML object from simplexml_load_string function xml_join($root, $append) { if ($append) { if (strlen(trim((string) $append))==0) { $xml = $root->addChild($append->getName()); foreach($append->children() as $child) { xml_join($xml, $child); } } else { $xml = $root->addChild($append->getName(), (string) $append); } foreach($append->attributes() as $n => $v) { $xml->addAttribute($n, $v); } } } $xml_append = simplexml_load_string('<data><items><item id="1">value</item></items></data>'); $xml_root = new SimpleXMLElement('<result></result>'); $cxml = $xml_root->addChild('clone'); xml_join($cxml, $xml_append->items->item[0]); print $xml_root->asXML(); ?> Result: <?xml version="1.0"?> <result> <clone> <item id="1"> value </item> </clone> </result> ---- Server IP: 147.32.160.17 Probable Submitter: 80.83.68.114 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.simplexmlelement.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/102361 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102361 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/102361 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php