remove xml version tag when a xml is created in php

Question

I\'m creating a xml using this

$customXML = new SimpleXMLElement(\'\');

after adding some attributes onto this, when

Answer 1

In theory you can provide the LIBXML_NOXMLDECL option to drop the XML declaration when saving a document, but this is only available in Libxml >= 2.6.21 (and buggy). An alternative would be to use

$customXML = new SimpleXMLElement('');
$dom = dom_import_simplexml($customXML);
echo $dom->ownerDocument->saveXML($dom->ownerDocument->documentElement);