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Asked: 2026-05-12T01:13:41+00:00

I am trying to create an XML file, but the XML file needs to

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I am trying to create an XML file, but the XML file needs to be wrapped in nodes… hence, not easy to use append.

Any help with this would be great!!

My XML consists of 2 different node types:

<entry id="1_0">
    <title>This is the title</title>
    <description>This is the description...</description>
    <subName>Publishers Name</subName>
    <date>Saturday, June 11th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM</date>
    <BorF>bug</BorF>
</entry>

<vote id="1_0">5</vote>

And I’ve a simple testing page using jQuery to send data (currently static) to a PHP file

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>


<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>

<script>

$(function(){


    $("#addVote").click(function() {
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "saveListData.php",
            data: 'url=bugs_features_listdata.xml&listData=\n<vote id="1_2">3</vote>',
            async: false,
            cache: false,
            success: function(data, textStatus) {
                if (window.console) console.log(textStatus);
            },
            complete: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus){
                if (window.console) console.log(textStatus);
            }
        });
    });

    $("#addEntry").click(function() {
        $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: "saveListData.php",
            data: 'url=bugs_features_listdata.xml&listData=\n<entry id="1_1">\n\
\t<title>This is the title 1</title>\n\
\t<description>This is the description...</description>\n\
\t<subName>Publishers Name</subName>\n\
\t<date>Saturday, June 11th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM</date>\n\
\t<BorF>bug</BorF>\n\
</entry>',
            async: false,
            cache: false,
            success: function(data, textStatus) {
                if (window.console) console.log(textStatus);
            },
            complete: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus){
                if (window.console) console.log(textStatus);
            }
        });
    });


}); 

</script>

</head>

<body>


<a id="addVote" href="#">ADD VOTE</a><br /><br /><a id="addEntry" href="#">ADD ENTRY</a>


</body>
</html>

…that currently appends it to my XML file, but I need the beginning/ending nodes.

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  1. Editorial Team

    txwinger had the right idea in his comment on your question. You should use one of PHPs many built-in XML manipulation libraries to add the node, then serialize it and save it as a text file. In SimpleXML, for instance:

    $xml = simplexml_load_file('test.xml');
$vote = $xml->addChild('vote', '5');
$vote->addAttribute('id','1_0');
$fp = fopen('test.xml', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $xml->asXML());
fclose($fp);

    There are other XML manipulation libraries that might suit your task better

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