note 94709 deleted from simplexmlelement.construct by nikic
| From: | nikic@php.net | Date: | Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:12:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 94709 deleted from simplexmlelement.construct by nikic | ||
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Note Submitter: zwilson at gulosolutions dot com
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SimpleXML does not correctly parse SOAP XML results if the result comes back with colons
â:â in a tag, like <soap:Envelope>. Why? Because SimpleXML treats the colon
character â:â as an XML namespace, and places the entire contents of the SOAP XML result
inside a namespace within the SimpleXML object. There is no real way to correct this using
SimpleXML, but we can alter the raw XML result a little before we send it to SimpleXML to parse.
All we have to do is use the preg_replace function to get rid of the colons in the SOAP response
tags BEFORE you hand it off to SimpleXML, like so:
<?php
// SimpleXML seems to have problems with the colon ":" in the <xxx:yyy> response
tags, so take them out
$xmlString = preg_replace("/(<\/?)(\w+):([^>]*>)/", "$1$2$3",
$response);
?>