How can PHP classes be modified to include nested tags like <ul> and <li> when reading XML files?

To include nested tags like <ul> and <li> when reading XML files in PHP classes, you can modify the class to recursively iterate through the XML elements and generate the nested tags accordingly. This can be achieved by checking if an element has child nodes, and if so, creating the appropriate nested tags. 

class XMLParser {
    public function parseXML($xmlString) {
        $xml = simplexml_load_string($xmlString);
        if ($xml === false) {
            return false;
        }

        return $this-&gt;parseXMLElement($xml);
    }

    private function parseXMLElement($element) {
        $output = &#039;&#039;;
        foreach ($element-&gt;children() as $child) {
            $output .= &#039;&lt;li&gt;&#039; . $child-&gt;getName();
            if ($child-&gt;count() &gt; 0) {
                $output .= &#039;&lt;ul&gt;&#039; . $this-&gt;parseXMLElement($child) . &#039;&lt;/ul&gt;&#039;;
            }
            $output .= &#039;&lt;/li&gt;&#039;;
        }
        return $output;
    }
}

$xmlString = &#039;&lt;root&gt;&lt;item&gt;Item 1&lt;/item&gt;&lt;item&gt;&lt;subitem&gt;Subitem 1&lt;/subitem&gt;&lt;/item&gt;&lt;/root&gt;&#039;;
$parser = new XMLParser();
echo &#039;&lt;ul&gt;&#039; . $parser-&gt;parseXML($xmlString) . &#039;&lt;/ul&gt;&#039;;

Keywords

PHP classes nested tags XML files <ul> <li>

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