Note that elements opened this way will *remain open* (i.e. the XML will be badly formed and thus invalid) unless *each element* is explicitly closed with XMLWriter::endElement.
If you have multiple elements open, and wish to simply close them all -- including the root element -- this snippet is what you want:
<?php
// Automatically close all remaining open elements.
while ($xml->endElement() !== false) { continue; }
?>
In some cases, XMLWriter::writeElement might serve you better: it writes complete elements, but isn't suitable when you need to loop to generate its contents, unless this is done beforehand.
XMLWriter::endElement
xmlwriter_end_element
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7, PECL xmlwriter >= 0.1.0)
XMLWriter::endElement -- xmlwriter_end_element — End current element
Description
Object oriented style
XMLWriter::endElement
( void
) : bool
Procedural style
xmlwriter_end_element
( resource
$xmlwriter
) : boolEnds the current element.
Parameters
-
xmlwriter -
Only for procedural calls. The XMLWriter resource that is being modified. This resource comes from a call to xmlwriter_open_uri() or xmlwriter_open_memory().
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
See Also
- XMLWriter::startElement() - Create start element tag
- XMLWriter::writeElement() - Write full element tag
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