php xml request with curl

<?php
       $xmldata = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
					<student>
					<info>
					<name>Rahul kumar</name>
					<age>10</age>
					<class>5th</class>
					<rollno>25</rollno>
					</info>
					</student>';


        $url = "https://www.website.com/ws";

        $ch = curl_init();
        if (!$ch) {
            die("Couldn't initialize a cURL handle");
        }
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: text/xml'));
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xmldata);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
        $result = curl_exec($ch); // execute
	echo $result;             //show response
	curl_close($ch);
?>