#51154 [Opn->Bgs]: SimpleXMLElement does not support dash in nodename

ID: 51154 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported By: mr at inpay dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: SimpleXML related Operating System: Windows 7 Professional PHP Version: 5.3.1 New Comment: This works fine, so long as you use the right syntax. Example 3 at http://au2.php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php covers this. In your case, you would access http-code as follows: $httpCode = $xml->{'http-code'}; Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-02-26 08:40:34] mr at inpay dot com Oops, but accident i switched the "Expected result" and "Actual result" Expected result should be SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http_code] => 200 ) Actual result should be SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http-code] => 200 ) Sorry for the inconvinience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-02-26 08:38:41] mr at inpay dot com Description: ------------ Having a XML string, where one or more of the nodenames contains a - (dash) it is impossible to return that value, as dash is not allowed in attributes on an object. Consider replacing all dash'es with underscores. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xml_string = "<response><http-code>200</http-code></response>"; $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml_string); print_r($xml); ?> Expected result: ---------------- SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http-code] => 200 ) Actual result: -------------- SimpleXMLElement Object ( [http_code] => 200 ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=51154&edit=1