XMLwriter

The XMLWriter PHP extension is a built-in extension that provides a simple and efficient way to generate XML documents in PHP. It allows to create XML elements, attributes, text nodes, and other XML constructs using a procedural interface.

The XMLWriter extension offers several benefits when working with XML in PHP:

  • Efficient and low memory usage: The extension is designed to generate XML incrementally, allowing you to write large XML documents without consuming excessive memory.

  • Stream-oriented output: XMLWriter writes XML data to a stream, which can be a file, memory, or an HTTP connection. This enables you to generate XML directly without the need to store the entire document in memory.

  • Namespace support: XMLWriter supports XML namespaces, allowing you to define and assign namespaces to elements and attributes.

  • Character encoding and formatting: XMLWriter provides methods to set the character encoding of the XML document and control the formatting options, such as indentation and line breaks.

  • Validity and well-formedness checking: XMLWriter performs automatic validation and well-formedness checking as you write XML, ensuring that the generated XML document is compliant with XML standards.

<?php

// adapted from PHP Manual

$xw = xmlwriter_open_memory();
xmlwriter_set_indent($xw, 1);
$res = xmlwriter_set_indent_string($xw, ' ');

xmlwriter_start_document($xw, '1.0', 'UTF-8');

// A first element
xmlwriter_start_element($xw, 'tag1');

// Attribute 'att1' for element 'tag1'
xmlwriter_start_attribute($xw, 'att1');
xmlwriter_text($xw, 'valueofatt1');
xmlwriter_end_attribute($xw);

xmlwriter_end_document($xw);

echo xmlwriter_output_memory($xw);

?>

Documentation

See also PHP XMLWriter, Create an XML file using XMLWriter

Related : XMLReader, Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Related packages : sabre/xml, fluentdom/fluentdom

Added in PHP 5.0+