Strip all tags from an XML file
asp.net, php, xml, xslt
Solution
This should do ya:
<?php
$xml = file_get_contents('myxml.xml');
$xml = nl2br($xml);
echo strip_tags($xml,"<br>");
?>
The reason you were missing line breaks was because in XML, it is stored as plaintext linebreaks `\n` whereas when displaying as HTML you must have explicit `<br>` linebreaks. Because of this the good PHP folks made a handy function called `nl2br()` to do this for you.
Problem
I have a large XML file I would like to strip all the tags and leave node values only. I want each node value in a separate line. How can I do that? Can I use a free software to do it or use a PHP or ASP.NET Code. I looked at XSLT option also. It is probably too much for RegEX. I explored PHP options looked at `simplexml_load_file()`, `strip_tags()`, `get_file_contents()` but failed. ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- a comment --> <catalog> <cd> <title>Empire Burlesque</title> <artist>Bob Dylan</artist> <country>USA</country> <company>Columbia</company> <price>10.90</price> <address> <city>Melbourne </city> <zip>01803 </zip> </address> <year>1985</year> </cd> <cd> <title>Hide your heart</title> <artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist> <country>UK</country> <company>CBS Records</company> <price>9.90</price> <year>1988</year> </cd> </catalog> ``` Edit: This is what I tried, among other things. ``` <?php $xml = simplexml_load_file('myxml.xml'); echo strip_tags($xml); ?> ```