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Introduction

The SimpleXML extension provides a very simple and easily usable toolset to convert XML to an object that can be processed with normal property selectors and array iterators.

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Introduction

SL
25-Mar-2009 08:09


SimpleXML has a beautiful simplicity. The following is one example of how it may be used with namespaces.  





Note, I use the XML that made Paul Reinheimer experience hair loss; for that XML see  





http://blog.preinheimer.com/index.php?/archives/172-SimpleXML,-Namespaces-Hair-loss.html





<?php


$dom = new DOMDocument();                 


$dom->loadXML( $response );                





$ns='urn:ebay:apis:eBLBaseComponents';


$domlist=$dom->getElementsByTagNameNS($ns,'*');   


$sxe=simplexml_import_dom($domlist->item(0));  


echo 'Ebay Timestamp ',$sxe->Timestamp;   


?>





Running the above code left my own hair uneffected. :)

alvaro at demogracia dot com
30-Sep-2008 05:30


SimpleXML is simple, unless your XML document has namespaces (e.g., tags withs "colons" like <rs:data>). In this case, most code examples in this section will not work at all: namespaces imply that you need to do further processing with functions that are often undocumented.



Look for "namespace" in user notes.

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Installing/Configuring

SimpleXML

Last updated: Fri, 20 Nov 2009