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POCreate or insert an xml into a CDATA
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    copied!<p>I have been testing something but I can not make it work, here is the problem:</p> <p>I have an xml:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;history&gt; &lt;name&gt; &lt;age/&gt; &lt;/name&gt; &lt;/history&gt; </code></pre> <p>I would like to insert a CDATA in that XML and the content of the CDATA is part of the xml as well, something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;history&gt; &lt;![CDATA[ &lt;name&gt; &lt;age/&gt; &lt;/name&gt; ]]&gt; &lt;/history&gt; </code></pre> <p>I am using DOMDocument to create the xml:</p> <pre><code> header('Content-Type: text/xml'); $xml = new DOMDocument("1.0","UTF-8"); $base = $xml-&gt;appendChild($xml-&gt;createElement('history')); $name = $base-&gt;appendChild($xml-&gt;createElement('name')); $age = $name-&gt;appendChild($xml-&gt;createElement('age')); $test = $xml-&gt;saveXML(); $xml-&gt;getElementsByTagName('history')-&gt;item(0)-&gt;appendChild($xml-&gt;createCDATASection($test)); $xml-&gt;formatOutput = true; echo $xml-&gt;saveXML(); </code></pre> <p>it generates this xml:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;history&gt; &lt;name&gt; &lt;age/&gt; &lt;/name&gt; &lt;![CDATA[&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;history&gt;&lt;name&gt;&lt;age/&gt;&lt;/name&gt;&lt;/history&gt;]]&gt; &lt;/history&gt; </code></pre> <p>The problems I am facing at the moments are:</p> <ol> <li>The way I look at how CDATA works, it looks like I need to complete all the 'inner xml' before I can cut that 'inner xml' and then create the cdata section and paste it into the cdata section</li> <li>I am using a temporary solution which is str_replace, but I would like to utilize the domdocument createCData function as much as possible.</li> </ol>
 

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