Re: REQ: DOMDocument needs a way to format XML code

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On Fri, November 11, 2005 2:27 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I have a feature request (and I'm a bit disappointed that this isn't
> already
> in the DOMDocument, when there are nearly useless methods like
> "normalize()")... Ruby has this built in. xmllint has the --format
> parameter. But yet PHP's DOMDocument has no way of cleaning up the
> code.
>
> Could someone please make a method in PHP v5.x to format the XML.
> After
> adding/deleting nodes, the XML gets fairly messy. Ideally it would
> have an
> offset character position to start the indent (default of 0 or left
> margin),
> and a parameter for how many spaces to use for each indentation
> (default of
> say 4 or 5 (same as a tab)).
>
> You could just make this optional parameters to saveXML(), but I think
> it's
> more flexible to have a DOMDocument->format(offset,spaces);

It might be easy to run your XML through XMLTidy somehow...

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