PHP - SimpleXML - AddChild with another SimpleXMLElement

Question

I\'m trying to build a rather complex XML document.

I have a bunch of sections of the XML document that repeats. I thought I\'d use multiple string templates as base

Answer 1

You could use this function that is based in creating the children with attributes from the source:

function xml_adopt($root, $new) {
    $node = $root->addChild($new->getName(), (string) $new);
    foreach($new->attributes() as $attr => $value) {
        $node->addAttribute($attr, $value);
    }
    foreach($new->children() as $ch) {
        xml_adopt($node, $ch);
    }
}

$xml = new SimpleXMLElement("");
$child = new SimpleXMLElement("
a paragraph
another 
p");

xml_adopt($xml, $child);
echo $xml->asXML()."\n";

This will produce:

a paragraph
another p