Question

I’ve got an array that is constructed as follows:

$data = array('Artists' => array(
    array(...artist data...),
    array(...artist data...)
);

Unfortunatey, when using XmlWriter to convert this array to XML, I’m given an block of XML that looks like this:

<root>
    <Artists>
        <artist>
        ...
        </artist>
    </Artists>
    <artist>
    ...
    </artist>
</root>

The problem is that XmlWriter::StartElement() will not accept an integer value for a key, so the remaining items in that part of the array are shifted back under the root element, producing a malformed document.

Answer 1

SimpleXML works great for your use.