Re: PHP ate my XML's whitespace! I want it back!

..oO(Derik)

I load this list into an XML node, make some changes, and output it
back to XML again! Only now it usually looks thusly;

<hatlike_things><thing><hatlike>Canada</hatlike><headlike>Canada</
headlike></thing><thing><hatlike>Thermosphere</
hatlike><headlike>Mesosphere</headlike></thing><thing><hatlike>Kermit
T. Frog</hatlike><headlike>Hand</headlike></thing></hatlike_things>

The parser may not care, but I care! I want my whitespace back darn
it! I want to be able to read the results of a XML node I transform!
There was no joyful simple way of doing this when I last checked,
uh... 12-18 months ago. Has one emerged, in the interim?

See the UCNs on
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-asXML.php

In short: Use the DOM extension to get more control over the output
formatting.

Micha
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