Re: [PHP-XML-DEV] generating xml

[email protected] (Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg) Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:07:31 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups php.xml.dev
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, jux wrote:

> OK got it, but still it displayes and writes in one line. On that line:
> $dom->dump_file($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/xml/test.xml" ,false ,true);
>
> i allso use the format=true parameter but still it comes in one row. Is
> it because i use php4.3 not 5 or is there a mistake in my script?

I don't know. I'd have to check.

> Allso if his is in one row for server to read, it is not a big thing or
> is it a bad style or something?

It's not a "big" or "bad" thing, but it is a different XML
document. In XML, whitespace *is* significant. Adding the formatting
whitespace makes it easier to read, but does technically alter the
document, so that's why these features aren't enabled by default.

-adam

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