Re: Parsing an XML return from a POST - resend with a little more information

# rluckhurst@resmaster.com / 2007-01-10 09:47:39 +1100: > I have spent most of last night and today looking at XML parsing and now am > totally confused. Some testing I have done suggests that SimpleXML is not the > way to go however I am open to suggestions if it might be an answer. What makes you think simplexml is not for you? I don't say it is, but you need to tell us exactly what you need. > I would appreciate any help or advice on how to parse this XML response and break it up > into either an array or individual variables. It is important for this > application to not only get the data contained between beginning and end tags > but also the attributes as they contain important data returned from the server. > I am the first to admit that PHP XML Parsing has me lost. http://php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php has quite a few examples in the user-contributed notes. Have you seen the manual? > One other question I do have is that all of the examples I have seen, using the > xml_parser, seem to be designed around a file being read into the parser. Is it > possible for the XML data to be contained in a variable and then used in the > parser? Many of the examples at http://php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php use a string variable as the source. If that page in the manual is correct and there are no bugs, you should be able to take off with var_dump(new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr)); where $xmlstr contains the server response. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991