Class: XML_Serializer

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   --XML_Serializer

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Creates XML documents from PHP data structures like arrays, objects or scalars.

This class can be used in two modes:

1. Create an XML document from an array or object that is processed by other applications. That means you can create an RDF document from an array in the following format:

       $data = array(
           'channel' => array(
               'title' => 'Example RDF channel',
               'link'  => 'http://www.php-tools.de',
               'image' => array(
                   'title' => 'Example image',
                   'url'   => 'http://www.php-tools.de/image.gif',
                   'link'  => 'http://www.php-tools.de'
               ),
               array(
                   'title' => 'Example item',
                   'link'  => 'http://example.com'
               ),
               array(
                   'title' => 'Another Example item',
                   'link'  => 'http://example.org'
               )
           )
       );
   

To create an RDF document from this array, do the following:

    require_once 'XML/Serializer.php';

    $options = array(
       XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_INDENT      => "\t",     // indent with tabs
       XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_LINEBREAKS  => "\n",     // use UNIX line breaks
       XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_ROOT_NAME   => 'rdf:RDF',// root tag
       XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_DEFAULT_TAG => 'item'    // tag for values
                                                      // with numeric keys
    );
    $serializer = new XML_Serializer($options);
    $rdf        = $serializer->serialize($data);

You will get a complete XML document that can be processed like any RDF document.

2. This class can be used to serialize any data structure in a way that it can later be unserialized again. XML_Serializer will store the type of the value and additional meta information in attributes of the surrounding tag. This meta information can later be used to restore the original data structure in PHP. If you want XML_Serializer to add meta information to the tags, add

      XML_SERIALIZER_OPTION_TYPEHINTS => true

to the options array in the constructor.

$options = array()

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Options for the serialization

XML_Serializer (Constructor)   [line 601]

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apiVersion   [line 618]

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getSerializedData   [line 795]

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resetOptions   [line 629]

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serialize   [line 679]

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setOption   [line 646]

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setOptions   [line 662]

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