XML/DOM serialization
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Create a simple DOM and having it serialize to:
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <root> <element> Some text here </element> </root>
PHP
Interpreter: PHP 5
<?php $dom = new DOMDocument();//the constructor also takes the version and char-encoding as it's two respective parameters $dom->formatOutput = true;//format the outputted xml $root = $dom->createElement('root'); $element = $dom->createElement('element'); $element->appendChild($dom->createTextNode('Some text here')); $root->appendChild($element); $dom->appendChild($root); $xmlstring = $dom->saveXML();
Python
Interpreter: Python 2.5
from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplementation dom = getDOMImplementation() document = dom.createDocument(None, "root", None) topElement = document.documentElement firstElement = document.createElement("element") topElement.appendChild(firstElement) textNode = document.createTextNode("Some text here") firstElement.appendChild(textNode) xmlString = document.toprettyxml(" " * 4)