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POCreating XML node with null value in php
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    copied!<p>I am creating a xml file using php. The resulting XML is.</p> <pre><code>&lt;xml&gt; &lt;data&gt; &lt;firstname&gt;Peter&lt;/firstname&gt; &lt;insertion&gt;V&lt;/insertion&gt; &lt;lastname&gt;John&lt;/lastname&gt; &lt;gender&gt;Male&lt;/gender&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;/xml&gt; </code></pre> <p>But in case where a value is null the resulting xml is (<strong>look at node insertion</strong>).</p> <pre><code>&lt;xml&gt; &lt;data&gt; &lt;firstname&gt;Peter&lt;/firstname&gt; &lt;insertion/&gt; &lt;lastname&gt;John&lt;/lastname&gt; &lt;gender&gt;Male&lt;/gender&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;/xml&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>If a value is null I want the xml to be created such that it results in.</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;xml&gt; &lt;data&gt; &lt;firstname&gt;Peter&lt;/firstname&gt; &lt;insertion&gt;&lt;/insertion&gt; &lt;lastname&gt;John&lt;/lastname&gt; &lt;gender&gt;Male&lt;/gender&gt; &lt;/data&gt; &lt;/xml&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is my code.</p> <pre><code> $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0'); $doc-&gt;formatOutput = true; $root = $doc-&gt;createElement('data'); $doc-&gt;appendChild($root); $data = $doc-&gt;createElement('data'); $fname = $doc-&gt;createElement('firstname'); $fname-&gt;appendChild( $doc-&gt;createTextNode($row['firstname'])); $data-&gt;appendChild($fname); $ins = $doc-&gt;createElement('insertion'); $ins-&gt;appendChild( $doc-&gt;createTextNode($row['insertion'])); $data-&gt;appendChild($ins); $lname = $doc-&gt;createElement('lastname'); $lname-&gt;appendChild( $doc-&gt;createTextNode($row['lastname'])); $data-&gt;appendChild($lname); $gender = $doc-&gt;createElement('gender'); $gender-&gt;appendChild( $doc-&gt;createTextNode($row['gender'])); $data-&gt;appendChild($gender); $root-&gt;appendChild($data); $doc-&gt;save($path . "test.xml"); </code></pre> <p>I am sending this xml as response after creating it. So in client side the <strong>lastname</strong> node is becoming a subnode of <strong>insertion</strong> when it is</p> <pre><code> &lt;insertion/&gt; </code></pre>
 

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