Re: DOM API Namespaces - help?

Cheers indeed Rob! That DOMXPath solution is exactly what I was looking for; Many, Many Thanks, Nathan Rob wrote:

Hi Nathan, Nathan Rixham wrote:

Cheers Rob, But this is the problem, I don't know what the namespace/prefix is! ie "xi" and the following doesn't work: $root->getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/', '*'); further xmlns is ?not? a prefix so this won't work either.. $root->lookupPrefix('http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/'); we need to assume that we don't know the document we're working on, thus we don't know: a] if it has any namespaces defined b] if any, what the namespaces are c] if any, what the prefixes are. And I still can't find any way of finding this out, it should be simple enough surely? still help!?

There are a couple of ways to do this. Using only DOM, you can grab the namespaces via XPath: $root = $dom->documentElement; $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); $nodes = $xpath->query('namespace::*'); foreach ($nodes AS $node) {

    print "x: ".$node->localName."\n";

} A simpler solution is to use simplexml: $sxe = simplexml_import_dom($root); var_dump($sxe->getDocNamespaces(true)); Rob

Nathan Rob wrote:

Hi Nathan, You need to retrieve the attribute based on the xmlns namespace. Nathan Rixham wrote:

Thanks Jessen, I'm using the DOM API (domdocument) in PHP 5 - and yes pull xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" from the chapter or indeed any namespaces defined in the root node and store them in a variable. If anybody could shed any light it'd be greatly appreciated.

$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" ?> <chapter xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <a /> </chapter>'; $dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadXML($xml); $root = $dom->documentElement; $attr = $root->getAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/', 'xi'); var_dump($attr); Rob

Nathan Per Jessen wrote:

Nathan Rixham wrote:

but assuming the above file is: <?xml version="1.0" ?> <chapter xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> <a /> </chapter> how would one retrieve xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"

When you say 'retrieve', what do you really mean? You need to get the namespace value into a PHP variable? I would probably look at the namespace-uri() function in XSLT, but I don't know if you're using XSLT? /Per Jessen, Zürich