Re: simplexml adding 'encoding' attribute to xml declaration

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From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Basewind wrote:

> I'm creating an xml file using simplexml, but would like to add the
> encoding="UTF-8" to the XML declaration.  Like this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> How can I do this?
> 
> Here's my code:
> 
> <?php
> $namesXML = new SimpleXMLElement("<names></names>");
> echo $namesXML->asXML();
> 
> This shows:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" ?><!-- want the encoding attribute added here -->
> <names/>

It is called *Simple*XML*Element* for a reason.  However, this particular 
character encoding declaration is superfluous; UTF-8 is one of the XML 
default encodings [1].

And do use header() to declare the XML media type that fits your data best.  
Keep in mind that PHP's default is text/html which is not appropriate for 
that kind of output.

PointedEars
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[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding>
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simplexml adding 'encoding' attribute to xml declaration Basewind <mike@pearl-group.com> - 2012-02-24 19:17 -0800
  Re: simplexml adding 'encoding' attribute to xml declaration Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-02-25 20:40 +0100
  Re: simplexml adding 'encoding' attribute to xml declaration "Álvaro G. Vicario" <alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX@demogracia.com.invalid> - 2012-02-27 10:34 +0100

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