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

As SimpleXMLElement always uses "\n" to separate the XML-Declaration from the rest of the document, it can be split at that position and the remainder taken:

explode("\n", $customXML->asXML(), 2)[1];

Example:

');

echo explode("\n", $customXML->asXML(), 2)[1];

Output: