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

A practical solution: you know that the first occurrence of ?> in the result string is going to be then end of the xml version substring. So:

$customXML = new SimpleXMLElement('');
$customXML = substr($customXML, strpos($customXML, '?'.'>') + 2);

Note that ?> is split into two parts because otherwise some poor syntax highlighter may have problems parsing at this point.