Options let you influence the beautifiying process. They are passed to the renderer and thus, you have to check, whether the renderer you are using supports the options you want to use.

As there currently is only one renderer (Plain) available, you should not worry about this too much.

Options can be passed as an associative array to the constructor of XML_Beautifier. You may also use setOption(), or setOptions() to set one or more options after the instance of XML_Beautifier has been created.

All available options

Here is a list of all options supported by XML_Beautifier.

Table 42-1. XML_Beautifier options

Option	Possible values	Default	Description
removeLineBreaks	`TRUE` or `FALSE`	`TRUE`	Sets, whether linebreaks should be stripped from cdata sections
indent	any string	" " (4 spaces)	The string passed to this option will be used to indent the tags in one level.
linebreak	any string	"\n"	The string passed to this option will be used for linebreaks You should use "\n" or "\r\n".
caseFolding	`TRUE` or `FALSE`	`FALSE`	Disable or enable case folding for tags and attributes
caseFoldingTo	"uppercase" or "lowercase"	"uppercase"	Can be used, if `caseFolding` is set to `TRUE` to define whether tags and attributes should be converted to upper- or lowercase
normalizeComments	`FALSE` or `TRUE`	`FALSE`	If set to true, all adjacent whitespaces in an XML comment will be converted to one space. This will convert comments with more than one line to a comment with one line.
maxCommentLine	integer	-1	Maximum length of comment line. If a comment exceeds this limit, it will be wrapped automatically. If set to -1 the line length is unlimited.
multilineTags	`TRUE` or `FALSE`	`FALSE`	If set to true, a linebreak will be added inside the tags after each attribute and attributes will be indeted.

Options example

The following example shows how to set options for XML_Beautifier.

Example 42-1. Using setOptions() and setOption()

require_once "XML/Beautifier.php"; $options = array(                     "caseFolding"       => true,                     "caseFoldingTo"     => "uppercase",                     "normalizeComments" => true                 );  $fmt = new XML_Beautifier($options); $result = $fmt->formatFile('originalFile.xml', 'outputFile.xml');

Options example setting options at a later point

The following example shows how to set options for XML_Beautifier, if the instance already has been created.

Example 42-2. XML_Beautifier options

require_once "XML/Beautifier.php"; $fmt = new XML_Beautifier(); $options = array(                     "caseFolding"       => true,                     "caseFoldingTo"     => "uppercase",                     "normalizeComments" => true                 );  $fmt->setOptions($options); $fmt->setOption("indent", "\t"); $result = $fmt->formatFile('originalFile.xml', 'outputFile.xml');

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