note 116028 added to domdocument.save

When creating a DOMDocument from scratch and saving it, the encoding will be utf-8, although it's declared as iso-8859-1. When loading an XML-file declared and saved as iso-8859-1, php will keep the correct encoding when it's saved after changes are made. Php converts files declared as iso-8859-1 to utf-8 internally. To add text containing special characters, the text must be encoded as utf-8. When the document is saved, special characters are converted to iso-8859-1. To save an xml created from scratch, use fopen/fwrite and utf8_decode: $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1'); //Add som nodes and text with apropriate methods $f = fopen('xmlfile.xml', 'w+'); fwrite($f, utf8_decode($doc->saveXML())); fclose($f); ---- Server IP: 195.139.129.18 Probable Submitter: 81.166.237.3 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.save.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/116028 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/116028 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/116028 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php