是否可以使用DomDocument创建一个元素，其中开始和结束标签不同？

Question

I know this sounds odd but I have a special situation where I need to create an xml (actually this won't be an xml document anymore because of the different closing tag) where the root opening tag is different from the root closing tag. Like:

<OPENING_TAG>
   <ONE></ONE>
   <TWO></TWO>
   <THREE></THREE>
</CLOSING_TAG>

Again I know this is not right but as I have mentioned this is a special case where the opening and closing tags have to be different. How can I accomplish that with DomDocument?

Answer 1

What you seem to want to do is create an invalid XML document. DOMDocument won't allow you to do that - it makes no sense. SO the answer is No you can't.

If you want to create the document your after, create it as text directly.

Answer 2

No, DOM doesn't allow invalid XML document. If it is necessary to create opening and closing tags, you can write xml like below (if it suits your requirement):

<MAIN_TAG>
   <OPENING_TAG></OPENING_TAG>
   <ONE></ONE>
   <TWO></TWO>
   <THREE></THREE>
   <CLOSING_TAG></CLOSING_TAG>
<MAIN_TAG>

Or you can create it as a simple string (text).