XML/DOM serialization

XML/DOM serialization
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Create a simple DOM and having it serialize to:

 <?xml version="1.0" ?>
 <root>
     <element>
         Some text here
     </element>
 </root>

PHP

Interpreter: PHP 5

 <?php
 $dom = new DOMDocument();//the constructor also takes the version and char-encoding as it's two respective parameters
 $dom->formatOutput = true;//format the outputted xml
 $root = $dom->createElement('root');
 $element = $dom->createElement('element');
 $element->appendChild($dom->createTextNode('Some text here'));
 $root->appendChild($element);
 $dom->appendChild($root);
 $xmlstring = $dom->saveXML();
 

Python

Interpreter: Python 2.5

 from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplementation
 
 dom = getDOMImplementation()
 document = dom.createDocument(None, "root", None)
 
 topElement = document.documentElement
 firstElement = document.createElement("element")
 topElement.appendChild(firstElement)
 textNode = document.createTextNode("Some text here")
 firstElement.appendChild(textNode)
 
 xmlString = document.toprettyxml(" " * 4)