I am editing an XML file and need to populate it with data from a database. DOM works but it is unable to scale to several hundreds of MBs so I am now using XMLReader and XMLWriter which can write the very large XML file. Now, I need to select a node and add children to it but I can't find a method to do it, can someone help me out?
I can find the node I need to add children to by:
if ($xmlReader->nodeType == XMLReader::ELEMENT && $xmlReader->name == 'data')
{
echo 'data was found';
$data = $xmlReader->getAttribute('data');
}
How do I now add more nodes/children to the found node? Again for clarification, this code will read and find the node, so that is done. What is required is how to modify the found node specifically? Is there a way with XMLWriter for which I have not found a method that will do that after reading through the class documentation?