Ignore the first XML tag in DOMDocument?

Question

I write $xml = new DOMDocument(); and it automatically creates <?xml version="1.0"?>. I need to NOT create it. How do i do that?

One solution is to search the first ">" and strsub at the index at the first < found. But i like a nicer way to do this.

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. The solution is described here. It might suit your situation.

Answer 2

When you saveXML, pass in the root element as the node argument. Only the root element and its contents will be serialised, and not any XML declaration, doctype, comments or PIs outside the root.

$doc->saveXML($doc->documentElement);

or, if you need the other stuff but just not the redundant declaration:

$result= '';
foreach($document->childNodes as $node)
    $result.= $document->saveXML($node)."\n";