Re: SimpleXML addChild() namespace problem

On Jan 18, 2008 2:48 PM, Carole E. Mah <carole.mah@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 12:22 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > > Are you trying to read an existing document into a SimpleXMLElement, or > are > > you trying to create a SimpleXMLElement instance and generate a document > > from that? > > My impression was you were trying to do the later; please clarify and if > you > > are trying to do the later, post the code you are using to create the > > SimpleXMLElement instance and generate the output youve posted. > > Nathan, > > I am trying to to the latter -- create a SimpleXMLElement instance and > generate > a document from that. > > Thank you very much for all your examples and patience. > > I now see the very silly mistake I made. > > Correct (from your example): > > $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root > xmlns:itunes="http://apple.com"/>'); > $n = $xml->addChild("subtitle", "Musical Mockery", " > http://apple.com"); > > Incorrect (what I was doing): > > $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<root > xmlns:itunes="http://apple.com"/>'); > $n = $xml->addChild("subtitle", "Musical Mockery", " itunes"); > > To be fair, there really isn't an example of this on PHP.net. > Nonetheless, I feel a bit foolish for having wasted your time with > this. Thank you for your help. no prob; i learned how to do this on this post myself ;) glad to hear its working now! -nathan