Well, I've working on XML with Cake recently, and I choose to convert
the XML to array and then work on the arrays, before converting the
array back to an XML
It works well for me !
On Feb 6, 9:56 pm, misterjinx <mariusbarbulesc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to modify the content of an xml document
> using the xml core library, but i don't succeed at appending the newly
> created element at the root element. First of all, I have the
> following structure of my xml file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <playlists>
> <playlist id="1">
> <song>
> <title>A new song</title>
> <filename>A_new_song.mp3</filename>
> </song>
> <song>
> <title>A second song</title>
> <filename>A_second_song.mp3</filename>
> </song>
> </playlist>
> <playlist id="2">
> <song>
> <title>A new song</title>
> <filename>A_new_song.mp3</filename>
> </song>
> </playlist>
> </playlists>
>
> And here's how i'm trying to append a new 'playlist' element to the
> root element:
>
> $xml = new Xml( 'playlists.xml' );
>
> $new_playlist = $xml->createElement( 'playlist' );
> $new_playlist->addAttribute( 'id', 123456 );
>
> $song = $xml->createElement( 'song' );
> $title = $xml->createElement( 'title' );
> $title->append( $xml->createTextNode('New song title'));
> $song->append($title);
>
> $filename = $xml->createElement( 'filename' );
> $filename->append( $xml->createTextNode('New song
> filename') );
> $song->append($filename);
>
> $new_playlist->append( $song );
>
> $xml->append($new_playlist);
>
> Doing like this, the newly created element isn't added to the root
> element (playlists), it is added after it. And I can't find a method
> in the Xml library that would allow me to append (or in some cases
> modify some element) this newly created element to the root element.
>
> Does anyone of you know how can i obtain the result i want? Thanks.
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