If the string is pre-formatted, and a plain text representation of the same is needed, it can be wrapped in a HTML <pre/> tag and html entities can be used to escape the angle brackets. This has been shown below −
<?PHP echo '<pre>', htmlentities($string), '</pre>'; ?>
The string is assigned to a string type and the above is used to show XML in HTML −
Example
<?php $string = " <example> <example> <example_value>EXAMPLE</example_value> </example> </example> "; echo '<pre>', htmlentities($string), '</pre>'; ?>
Output
This will produce the following output −
<example> <example> <example_value>EXAMPLE</example_value> </example> </example>