Help with DOM XML PHP...

When I have the DOM write a new node to the XML page it adds it right after the node above and doesn't format it nicely (like we are used to seeing XML data formatted) like this:

<pages>
<page>value</page>
<page>value2</page>
<page>value3</page>
</pages>

instead it writes it like this:

<pages><page>value</page><page>value2</page><page>value3</page></pages>>

So what happens is when I try to replace that node it cant' find it... and if I go and fix the format just by dropping down the lines so they are formatted like this:

it starts working just fine.

So my question is, how do I get it to write nodes nicely, keeping the formatting?

Here is the code I use:

$xdoc = new DomDocument;
$xdoc->Load('includes/content/pages.xml');
			
$candidate = $xdoc->getElementsByTagName('pages')->item(0);
			
$newPageElement = $xdoc ->createElement('page');
			
$newPermalinkElement = $xdoc ->createElement('permalink');
$PermalinkNode = $xdoc ->createTextNode ($newpermalink);
$newPermalinkElement -> appendChild($PermalinkNode);
$newPageElement -> appendChild($newPermalinkElement);
			
$newNicenameElement = $xdoc ->createElement('nicename');
$NicenameNode = $xdoc ->createTextNode ($newnicename);
$newNicenameElement -> appendChild($NicenameNode);
$newPageElement -> appendChild($newNicenameElement);
			
$newSEOtitleElement = $xdoc ->createElement('seotitle');
$SEOtitleNode = $xdoc ->createTextNode ($newseotitle);
$newSEOtitleElement -> appendChild($SEOtitleNode);
$newPageElement -> appendChild($newSEOtitleElement);
			
$newMETAdescriptionElement = $xdoc->createElement('metadescription');
$METAdescriptionNode = $xdoc ->createTextNode ($newmetadescription);
$newMETAdescriptionElement -> appendChild($METAdescriptionNode);
$newPageElement -> appendChild($newMETAdescriptionElement);
			
$newPagecontentElement = $xdoc ->createElement('pagecontent');
$PagecontentNode = $xdoc ->createTextNode ($newpagecontent);
$newPagecontentElement -> appendChild($PagecontentNode);
$newPageElement -> appendChild($newPagecontentElement);
			
$candidate -> appendChild($newPageElement);
			
$test = $xdoc->save("includes/content/pages.xml");

Code (markup):

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

 

put

$xdoc->formatOutput = true;

PHP:

before the save. That will do it hopefully

 

Forgot to mention you also need to have the line

$xdoc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

PHP:

just after the new domdocument line

 

Thanks JAY!

I tried that and it didn't work but after doing some searching on formatOutput I found that you also need to add:

$xdoc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;

right before loading the XML document so here is what I did to the code at the top:

$xdoc = new DomDocument();

$xdoc->preserveWhiteSpace = false; // Added this
			
$xdoc->Load('includes/content/pages.xml');

$xdoc->formatOutput = true; // AND added this

Code (markup):

You can read more on this here: http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.savexml.php
Do a page search for preserveWhiteSpace. It's almost at the bottom of the page from "devin at SPAMISBAD dot tritarget dot com".

It is formatting it nicely now. Thanks!

UPDATE: JAY, just saw your second post, thanks.

 

^ read my post above