Getting SimpleXMLElement to include the encoding in output

Question

This:

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

...outputs this:

Answer 1

Simple and clear only do this

$XMLRoot = new SimpleXMLElement('');

OutPut

to add attributes in element only use

$XMLRoot->addAttribute('name','juan');

to add child use

$childElement = $XMLRoot->addChild('elementChild');
$childElement->addAttribute('attribName','somthing');