note 90440 deleted from book.simplexml by jani

Note Submitter: nickmaccarthy at gmail dot com ---- 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.