Getting XML file content as string in php

Question

I want to display the content of a xml file as itself. I dont want to parse it, instead just read its content and display it.

I tried

$content = file_get_contents("test.xml") ;

But the $content has xml in it.ie when I var_dump($content) the output is string(899) " " Is it possible to read the the file without parsing. Help me please.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This should solve it

$content = htmlentities(file_get_contents("test.xml"));

And this should solve it:

header("Content-Type: text/plain");
$content = file_get_contents("test.xml");
var_dump($content);

It tells the browser you're sending plain text so that the XML is not rendered as HTML tags (which then are unknown and hidden).