PHP - XML Writer Functions

XMLWriter extension internally has libxml xmlWriter API and is used to write/create the contents of an XML document. The XML documents generated by this are non-cached and forward-only.

Installation

This extension enable by default. Default command line for disable at compile time is --disable-xml

Runtime Configuration

This extension has no configuration directives defined in php.ini.

List of Functions

PHP − indicates the earliest version of PHP that supports the function.

Sr.No	Function & Description	PHP
1	xmlwriter_end_attribute This function is used to end the current attribute tag.	5
2	xmlwriter_end_cdata This function is used to end the current CDATA tag.	5
3	xmlwriter_end_comment This function is used to end the current comment tag.	5
4	xmlwriter_end_document This function is used to create an end tag of the current document.	5
5	xmlwriter_end_dtd This function is used to end the current DTD tag.	5
6	xmlwriter_end_dtd_attlist This function is used to end the current DTD AttList tag.	5
7	xmlwriter_end_dtd_element This function is used to end the current DTD element tag.	5
8	xmlwriter_end_dtd_entity This function is used to end the current DTD entity tag.	5
9	xmlwriter_end_element This function ends the current element tag.	5
10	xmlwriter_end_pi This function is used to end the current PI tag.	5
11	xmlwriter_flush This function is used to flush the current buffer.	5
12	xmlwriter_full_end_element This function is used to end the current element (even it is empty).	5
13	xmlwriter_open_memory This function is used to create a new xmlwriter using memory.	5
14	xmlwriter_open_uri This function creates a XMLWriter object for the specified file and returns it.	5
15	xmlwriter_output_memory This function returns the current buffer.	5
16	xmlwriter_set_indent This is used to set the indentation of the output XML document on/off.	5
17	xmlwriter_set_indent_string This function is used to specify the string that should be used as indentation for the output XML file.	5
18	xmlwriter_start_attribute This function is used to create a start attribute tag.	5
19	xmlwriter_start_attribute_ns This function is used to create a start of the namespaced attribute tag.	5
20	xmlwriter_start_cdata This function is used to create a start CDATA tag.	5
21	xmlwriter_start_comment This function is used to start a comment tag.	5
22	xmlwriter_start_document This function is used to create a document start tag.	5
23	xmlwriter_start_dtd This function is used to create a start of the DTD tag.	5
24	xmlwriter_start_dtd_attlist This function is used to create a start tag of the DTD AttList.	5
25	xmlwriter_start_dtd_element This function is used to start a DTD element tag.	5
26	xmlwriter_start_dtd_entity This function is used to create a DTD entity start tag.	5
27	xmlwriter_start_element This function is used to create an element start tag.	5
28	xmlwriter_start_element_ns This function create a namespaced element start tag.	5
29	xmlwriter_start_pi This function is used to create a start PI tag.	5
30	xmlwriter_text This function is used to write text in the current element.	5
31	xmlwriter_write_attribute This function is used to create a full attribute.	5
32	xmlwriter_write_attribute_ns This function is used to create a complete namespaced attribute tag.	5
33	xmlwriter_write_cdata This function is used to creates a full CDATA tag.	5
34	xmlwriter_write_comment This function is used to creates full comment tag.	5
35	xmlwriter_write_dtd This function is used to create/write a full DTD tag.	5
36	xmlwriter_write_dtd_attlist This function is used to create a full DTD AttList tag.	5
37	xmlwriter_write_dtd_element This function is used to write/create a full DTD element tag.	5
38	xmlwriter_write_dtd_entity This function is used to create/write a full DTD entity tag.	5
39	xmlwriter_write_element This function is used to create a full element tag.	5
40	xmlwriter_write_element_ns This function is used to create a full namespaced element tag.	5
41	xmlwriter_write_pi This function is used to create full PI tag.	5
42	xmlwriter_write_raw This function is used to write a raw XML text.	5

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