How to save a neatly formatted XML file using Simple XML?

Question

What's the "trick" to save an XML file that visually would result neatly formatted?

such as:

<xml>
   <item>foo</item>
</xml>

and not:

<xml><item>foo</item></xml>

Answer 1

See the comments on the documentation

Answer 2

If the proper format of Xml is important for you instead of SimpleXml use the DOM (also included and much more complex) extension that has a property for this:

$xml->formatOutput = true;