Re: How to parse this kind of XML

On Feb 7, 2008 6:51 PM, Daniel Brown <parasane@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sure you're already aware of it, and that it's just a typo in > the email, but there's a space between the lt carat and the > event:sessionType node declaration. > that screwed me the last time i was posting on a simplexml namespace issue; silly gmail :D well, i know there is like nothing that really describes the 3rd and 4th parameters on the SimpleXMLElement constructor; or the 2 methods on the SimpleXMLElement::children() method either, in the manual online. however, since i just learned about phpt yesterday :), i was able to find a unit test distributed w/ php that actually tests said parameters for the SimpleXMLElement constructor. php-5.2.5/ext/simplexml/tests/profile13.phpt in there youll find this test xml; $xml =<<<EOF <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" > <soap:Body> <businessList foo="bar"> <businessInfo businessKey="bla"/> </businessList> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> EOF; and then the SimpleXMLElement is constructed via, $sxe = simplexml_load_string($xml, NULL, 0, 'soap', 1); removing the namespace declarations in the test xml caused the test to fail. you could just str_replace() the first element of the response and drop a fake namespace in there; its dirty, but it would let you still use SimpleXML... -nathan