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    XMLWriter::writeCData

    xmlwriter_write_cdata

    (PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7, PECL xmlwriter >= 0.1.0)

    XMLWriter::writeCData -- xmlwriter_write_cdata — Write full CDATA tag

    Description

    Object oriented style

    bool XMLWriter::writeCData ( string $content )

    Procedural style

    bool xmlwriter_write_cdata ( resource $xmlwriter , string $content )

    Writes a full CDATA.

    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().

    content

    The contents of the CDATA.

    Return Values

    Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

    See Also

    User Contributed Notes

    t dot w dot natt at UNIVERSITY dot bath dot ac dot uk
    7 years ago
    Seen a couple of bug reports and gotchas with this one but not a simple code example. Just in case someone finds it useful:

    <?php

    // serve xml doc as xml
    header('Content-type: application/xml');

    // set up the document
    $xml = new XmlWriter();
    $xml->openMemory();
    $xml->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');
    $xml->startElement('mydoc');
    $xml->startElement('myele');

    // CData output
    $xml->startElement('mycdataelement');
    $xml->writeCData("text for inclusion within CData tags");
    $xml->endElement();

    // end the document and output
    $xml->endElement();
    $xml->endElement();
    echo     $xml->outputMemory(true);
    ?>

    Outputs:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <mydoc>
        <myele>
            <mycdataelement><![CDATA[text for inclusion within CData tags]]>
            </mycdataelement>
        </myele>
    </mydoc>
    dave at dtracorp dot com
    9 years ago
    i don't know if this is a bug with the underlying c code or not, or this is by design (i'm not a big xml guy), but for me, running on fedora core 5, php 5.2.1
    to get this to work, the cdata functions need to wrap the description (or whatever element the cdata should appear in)
    for example.
    // initiate xmlwriter object as $xw
    // add header, titles, etc.

    // start cdata
    $xw->startCData();
    // start description
    $xw->startElement('description');
    // write cdata
    $xw->writeCData('<img src="http://php.net/images/php.gif" />');
    // write the description contents
    $xw->text('php logo');
    // end the description element
    $xw->endElement();
    // end the cdata
    $xw->endCData();

    // end xml, and output

    otherwise, i just got warnings about writing cdata in the wrong context, and no cdata would be written
    thesoupdragon at hotmail dot com
    8 years ago
    A rather strange effect with this.

    UTF8 Mysql database

                                $xml->startElement('tablecolor2');
        $xml->writeCData( $tablecolor2 );
        $xml->endElement();

    does not work !

    but
                                $xml->startElement('tablecolor2');
        $tablecolor2 = utf8_decode ( $val['pcolor2']);
        $xml->writeCData( utf8_encode ($tablecolor2) );
        $xml->endElement();

    cannot explain this - but it may help someone
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