Class Sabre\Xml\Service

Returns a fresh XML Reader.

Returns a fresh xml writer.

Parses a document in full.

Input may be specified as a string or readable stream resource. The returned value is the value of the root document.

Specifying the $contextUri allows the parser to figure out what the URI of the document was. This allows relative URIs within the document to be expanded easily.

The $rootElementName is specified by reference and will be populated with the root element name of the document.

Parses a document in full, and specify what the expected root element name is.

This function works similar to parse, but the difference is that the user can specify what the expected name of the root element should be, in clark notation.

This is useful in cases where you expected a specific document to be passed, and reduces the amount of if statements.

It's also possible to pass an array of expected rootElements if your code may expect more than one document type.

Generates an XML document in one go.

The $rootElement must be specified in clark notation. The value must be a string, an array or an object implementing XmlSerializable. Basically, anything that's supported by the Writer object.

$contextUri can be used to specify a sort of 'root' of the PHP application, in case the xml document is used as a http response.

This allows an implementor to easily create URI's relative to the root of the domain.

Map an XML element to a PHP class.

Calling this function will automatically set up the Reader and Writer classes to turn a specific XML element to a PHP class.

For example, given a class such as :

class Author { public $firstName; public $lastName; }

and an XML element such as:

These can easily be mapped by calling:

$service->mapValueObject('{http://example.org}author', 'Author');

Writes a value object.

This function largely behaves similar to write(), except that it's intended specifically to serialize a Value Object into an XML document.

The ValueObject must have been previously registered using mapValueObject().

Parses a clark-notation string, and returns the namespace and element name components.

If the string was invalid, it will throw an InvalidArgumentException.