Posted by "Daevid Vincent" on 11/11/05 22:27

I have a feature request (and I'm a bit disappointed that this isn't already
in the DOMDocument, when there are nearly useless methods like
"normalize()")... Ruby has this built in. xmllint has the --format
parameter. But yet PHP's DOMDocument has no way of cleaning up the code.

Could someone please make a method in PHP v5.x to format the XML. After
adding/deleting nodes, the XML gets fairly messy. Ideally it would have an
offset character position to start the indent (default of 0 or left margin),
and a parameter for how many spaces to use for each indentation (default of
say 4 or 5 (same as a tab)).

You could just make this optional parameters to saveXML(), but I think it's
more flexible to have a DOMDocument->format(offset,spaces);

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