XMLWriter::startElement
xmlwriter_start_element
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PECL xmlwriter >= 0.1.0)
XMLWriter::startElement -- xmlwriter_start_element — Create start element tag
Description
Object oriented style
bool XMLWriter::startElement
( string
$name
)Procedural style
bool xmlwriter_start_element
( resource
$xmlwriter
, string $name
)Starts an 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().
-
name -
The element name.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
See Also
- XMLWriter::endElement() - End current element
- XMLWriter::writeElement() - Write full element tag
- XMLWriter::endAttribute
- XMLWriter::endCData
- XMLWriter::endComment
- XMLWriter::endDocument
- XMLWriter::endDTDAttlist
- XMLWriter::endDTDElement
- XMLWriter::endDTDEntity
- XMLWriter::endDTD
- XMLWriter::endElement
- XMLWriter::endPI
- XMLWriter::flush
- XMLWriter::fullEndElement
- XMLWriter::openMemory
- XMLWriter::openURI
- XMLWriter::outputMemory
- XMLWriter::setIndentString
- XMLWriter::setIndent
- XMLWriter::startAttributeNS
- XMLWriter::startAttribute
- XMLWriter::startCData
- XMLWriter::startComment
- XMLWriter::startDocument
- XMLWriter::startDTDAttlist
- XMLWriter::startDTDElement
- XMLWriter::startDTDEntity
- XMLWriter::startDTD
- XMLWriter::startElementNS
- XMLWriter::startElement
- XMLWriter::startPI
- XMLWriter::text
- XMLWriter::writeAttributeNS
- XMLWriter::writeAttribute
- XMLWriter::writeCData
- XMLWriter::writeComment
- XMLWriter::writeDTDAttlist
- XMLWriter::writeDTDElement
- XMLWriter::writeDTDEntity
- XMLWriter::writeDTD
- XMLWriter::writeElementNS
- XMLWriter::writeElement
- XMLWriter::writePI
- XMLWriter::writeRaw
Коментарии
Note that startElement() and startElementNS() naturally do not write the closing ">" of the tag, since you may add an arbitrary number of attributes after starting a tag.
However, in some cases you may want to have the starting element tag closed in the output buffer before writing any further elements or content (e.g. if you communicate via an XML stream). To achieve this, you can simply use the text() method with an empty string.
I'm using PHP 7.1, not sure how many versions are affected but if you try to start an element that is a number or starts with a number (ie. 1 or 1TBS) it won't write it and messes up your XML.