Posted by Janwillem Borleffs on 11/10/05 22:34

fionathomson wrote:
> As suggested I have added the version to the constructor. I am now
> getting a new error message:
>
> Warning: domdocument(): Start tag expected, '<' not found in test.php
> on line 4
>

It appears that the implementation doesn't follow the documentation: the
first argument supplied must be a valid xml document.

The following appears to work fine:

$dom = new DomDocument('<root />');

This will create a document with like the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root/>

If you want to set the encoding, you can do the following:

$dom = new DomDocument(
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><root />'
);

This will create the following document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root/>


HTH;
JW

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