note 90440 added to book.simplexml

Note: SimpleXML has issues parsing tags with ":" in it. GML tags for example are formatted like: <gml:name>Foo</gml:name>. In our example below: $xml->firstLayer->secondLayer->{'gml:name'} will not be parsed by SimpleXML, but SimpleXML will NOT throw an error or lead you to believe that it has NOT parsed it. I was parsing output from hostip.info which uses XML as an output with GML. The solution I came up with this is to use str_replace(":", "_", $xmlstr) which then allowed SimpleXML to parse this accordingly since "_" will not break the parser. Just an FYI out there to anyone who is trying to use this for parsing GML you will probably come across the same issue. ---- Server IP: 209.41.74.194 Probable Submitter: 96.233.147.97 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/90440 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/90440 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/90440 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php