note 61219 deleted from ref.simplexml by didou

Note Submitter: Jason ---- As noted by paul at preinheimer dot com in a lower note ( http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.simplexml.php#52583 ); If you want to access an element that has a dash in its name, (as is common with the XML documents provided by the Library of Congress, as well as the NWS) you will need to handle it a little bit differently. You can either use XPATH, which works fine, but will return an array of results every time, even if there is a single result. eg. $xml->xpath('/data/time-layout/start-valid-time'} You can also choose just to encapsulate the element names containing a dash: $xml->data->{'time-layout'}->{'start-valid-time'}