PHP DomDocument output without <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Question

is there an option with DomDocument to remove the first line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 

The class instantiation automatically adds it to the output, but is it possible to get rid of it?

Answer 1

I think using DOMDocument is a universal solution for valid XML files:

If you have XML already loaded in a variable:

$t_xml = new DOMDocument(); $t_xml->loadXML($xml_as_string); $xml_out = $t_xml->saveXML($t_xml->documentElement); 

For XML file from disk:

$t_xml = new DOMDocument(); $t_xml->load($file_path_to_xml); $xml_out = $t_xml->saveXML($t_xml->documentElement); 

This comment helped: http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.savexml.php#88525