Question

I have XML that i need the user to be able to edit (inside a textarea) to his liking and then readd it to a DOMDocument Here is what i have so far.

$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->formatOutput = true;      //Formating the output
$ele = $dom->createElement("someele", "Hello");
$dom->appendChild( $ele );

$string = "<yowhatsup><noway>some text</noway></yowhatsup>";

$ele = $dom->createElement("otherxmlstuff", $string);
$dom->appendChild( $ele );

Now the output encodes the $string variable and that is not good for me as i want the user to be able to add xml as well as a string into my DOMDocument.

Could I do some pre-processing to turn text into a element as well, or am I barking up the wrong tree.

Answer 1

You can use DOMDocumentFragment and its appendXML() method, e.g.

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->formatOutput = true;
$ele = $doc->createElement("someele", "Hello");
    $xmlstuff = $doc->createElement("otherxmlstuff");

        $fragment = $doc->createDocumentFragment();
        $fragment->appendXML("<foo>text</foo><bar>text2</bar>");
        $xmlstuff->appendChild($fragment);

    $ele->appendChild($xmlstuff);
$doc->appendChild( $ele );
echo $doc->saveXML();

prints

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<someele>Hello<otherxmlstuff><foo>text</foo><bar>text2</bar></otherxmlstuff></someele>