How to display XML in HTML in PHP?

Question

I have a string with XML:

$string =  " <shoes>     <shoe>        <shouename>Shoue</shouename>     </shoe> </shoes> "; 

And would like display it on my website like this:

This is XML string content: <shoes>     <shoe>        <shouename>Shoue</shouename>     </shoe> </shoes> 

So I would like to do it:

• on site, not in textbox
• without external libraries, frameworks etc.
• formatted with proper new lines
• formatted with tabs
• without colors etc., only text

So how to do it in plain and simple way?

Answer 1

If you just want a plain-text representation of your (pre-formatted) string, you can wrap it in HTML <pre/> tags and use htmlentities to escape the angle brackets:

<?PHP echo '<pre>', htmlentities($string), '</pre>'; ?>