How to control the text format when using XML

[jane]

Hi,
I am using PHP with XML as data storage. There is a big chunk of paragraphs between the starting tag and the ending tag. How could I control the format? Like, make a new line or a new paragraph in order to display the content neatly in the browser?

Thanks

[fukas]

Simple way is whith every starting tag write to a output '\n' plus $counter times write '\t' and increment counter variable and for every ending tag decrement $counter and write '\n' plus $counter times write '\t'.

$counter = 0;

function start_tag_xxx( ... ) {
  global $counter;
  ...
  echo '\n'; $i = $counter++;
  while ($i--) echo '\t';
  ...
}

function end_tag_xxx( ... ) {
  global $counter;
  ...
  echo '\n'; $i = --$counter;
  while ($i--) echo '\t';
  ...
}

$counter is global