How to prevent self closing tag in php simplexml

Question

I want to generate xml by using php simplexml.

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

$output = $xml->addChild(\'child1\');
$output->addChild(         


        

Answer 1

Since Simple XML is proving troublesome, perhaps XMLWriter could do what you want.

Here's a fiddle

openMemory();
$oXMLWriter->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');

$oXMLWriter->startElement('xml');
$oXMLWriter->writeElement('child1', 'Hello world!!');
$oXMLWriter->writeElement('noValue', '');
$oXMLWriter->endElement();

$oXMLWriter->endDocument();
echo htmlentities($oXMLWriter->outputMemory(TRUE));

?>

Output:

  
    Hello world!!