Class: XML_Util

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // build an attribute string
 $att = array(
              'foo'   =>  'bar',
              'argh'  =>  'tomato'
            );
 
 $attList = XML_Util::attributesToString($att);

Parameters:

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 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // create a CData section
 $tag = XML_Util::createCDataSection('I am content.');

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 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // create an XML start element:
 $tag = XML_Util::createComment('I am a comment');

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 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // create an XML start element:
 $tag = XML_Util::createEndElement('myNs:myTag');

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 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // create an XML start element:
 $tag = XML_Util::createStartElement('myNs:myTag',
     array('foo' => 'bar') ,'http://www.w3c.org/myNs#');

Parameters:

This method will call XML_Util::createTagFromArray(), which is more flexible.

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // create an XML tag:
 $tag = XML_Util::createTag('myNs:myTag',
     array('foo' => 'bar'),
     'This is inside the tag',
     'http://www.w3c.org/myNs#');

Parameters:

this method awaits an array in the following format

 array(
     // qualified name of the tag
     'qname' => $qname

     // namespace prefix (optional, if qname is specified or no namespace)
     'namespace' => $namespace

     // local part of the tagname (optional, if qname is specified)
     'localpart' => $localpart,

     // array containing all attributes (optional)
     'attributes' => array(),

     // tag content (optional)
     'content' => $content,

     // namespaceUri for the given namespace (optional)
     'namespaceUri' => $namespaceUri
 )

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 $tag = array(
     'qname'        => 'foo:bar',
     'namespaceUri' => 'http://foo.com',
     'attributes'   => array('key' => 'value', 'argh' => 'fruit&vegetable'),
     'content'      => 'I\'m inside the tag',
 );
 // creating a tag with qualified name and namespaceUri
 $string = XML_Util::createTagFromArray($tag);

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 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // get a doctype declaration:
 $xmlDecl = XML_Util::getDocTypeDeclaration('rootTag','myDocType.dtd');

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 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // get an XML declaration:
 $xmlDecl = XML_Util::getXMLDeclaration('1.0', 'UTF-8', true);

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XML names are used for tagname, attribute names and various other, lesser known entities.

An XML name may only consist of alphanumeric characters, dashes, undescores and periods, and has to start with a letter or an underscore.

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // verify tag name
 $result = XML_Util::isValidName('invalidTag?');
 if (is_a($result, 'PEAR_Error')) {
    print 'Invalid XML name: ' . $result->getMessage();
 }

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Avoids the necessity to always require PEAR.php

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With the optional second parameter, you may select, which entities should be replaced.

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // replace XML entites:
 $string = XML_Util::replaceEntities('This string contains < & >.');

With the optional third parameter, you may pass the character encoding

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // replace XML entites in UTF-8:
 $string = XML_Util::replaceEntities(
     'This string contains < & > as well as ä, ö, ß, à and ê',
     XML_UTIL_ENTITIES_HTML,
     'UTF-8'
 );

Parameters:

With the optional second parameter, you may select, which entities should be reversed.

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // reverse XML entites:
 $string = XML_Util::reverseEntities('This string contains < & >.');

With the optional third parameter, you may pass the character encoding

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // reverse XML entites in UTF-8:
 $string = XML_Util::reverseEntities(
     'This string contains < & > as well as'
     . ' ä, ö, ß, à and ê',
     XML_UTIL_ENTITIES_HTML,
     'UTF-8'
 );

Parameters:

 require_once 'XML/Util.php';

 
 // split qualified tag
 $parts = XML_Util::splitQualifiedName('xslt:stylesheet');

 array(
     'namespace' => 'xslt',
     'localPart' => 'stylesheet'
 );

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