I use SimpleXML pretty much exclusively for this stuff: $data='<this> <that parm1="a" parm2="b" parm3="c">red</that> <that parm1="e" parm2="f" parm3="d">blue</that> </this>'; $xml=simplexml_load_string($data); foreach ($xml->that as $item){ print_r($item); echo "<hr>"; } Returns: SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [parm1] => a [parm2] => b [parm3] => c ) [0] => red ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SimpleXMLElement Object ( [@attributes] => Array ( [parm1] => e [parm2] => f [parm3] => d ) [0] => blue ) Which is what it should. You can also use XPath to get at what you want: $xpath = $xml->xpath('/this/that'); Which would return an array of each <that> item along with the attributes. Jamie Holly http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net On 3/24/2011 9:09 PM, jeff@ayendesigns.com wrote:
When all else fails, and #xml, ##php and #drupal-support come up empty...ask the folks who actually code :)
I have an xml structure that has
<this> <that parm1="a" parm2="b" parm3="c">red</that> <that parm1="e" parm2="f" parm3="d">blue</that> </this>
I've tried simplexml and a few third-party scripts, one that loads the xml into an associative array rather than an object, and nothing lets me get at 'red' or 'blue'. When I use dsm() on the results, for example, in the case of the object with simplexml I get only one 'that' and do not get its contents. When I use the script that creates the array, I get both that's, and all their parms as elements, but not the colors.
I'm curious what else people are using.
Jeff -- /I am a non sequitur. Beware, the contents were packaged where peanuts are processed./
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