<?PHP /** * XML Serializer example * * This example demonstrates, how XML_Serializer is able * to serialize scalar values as an attribute instead of a nested tag. * * In this example tags with more than one attribute become * multiline tags, as each attribute gets written to a * separate line as 'indentAttributes' is set to '_auto'. * * @author Stephan Schmidt <schst@php.net> */ error_reporting(E_ALL); require_once 'XML/Serializer.php'; $options = array( "indent" => " ", "linebreak" => "\n", "typeHints" => false, "defaultTagName" => "unnamedItem", "scalarAsAttributes" => true, "indentAttributes" => "_auto" ); // this is just to get a nested object $pearError = PEAR::raiseError('This is just an error object',123); $foo = new stdClass; $foo->value = "My value"; $foo->error = $pearError; $foo->xml = "cool"; $serializer = new XML_Serializer($options); $result = $serializer->serialize($foo); if( $result === true ) { $xml = $serializer->getSerializedData(); echo "<pre>"; print_r( htmlspecialchars($xml) ); echo "</pre>"; } else { echo "<pre>"; print_r($result); echo "</pre>"; } ?>