Getting SimpleXMLElement to include the encoding in output

Question

This:

$XML = new SimpleXMLElement(\"\");
echo($XML->asXML());

...outputs this:

Answer 1

You can try this, but you must use simplexml_load_string for $xml

$xml // Your main SimpleXMLElement
$xml->addAttribute('encoding', 'UTF-8');

Or you can still use other means to add the encoding to your output.

Simple Replacement

$outputXML=str_replace('', '', $outputXML);

Regular Expressions

$outputXML=preg_replace('/<\?\s*xml([^\s]*)\?>/' '', $outputXML);

DOMDocument - I know you said you don't want to use DOMDocument, but here is an example

$xml=dom_import_simplexml($simpleXML);
$xml->xmlEndoding='UTF-8';
$outputXML=$xml->saveXML();

You can wrap this code into a function that receives a parameter $encoding and adds it to the