SimpleXML and ADO XML
Álvaro G. Vicario
problem seems to be namespaces. This code:
<?php
$xml = simplexml_load_file('foo.xml');
print_r($xml);
?>
works fine, unless the XML file contains tags with colons, e.g.:
<rs:data>
In this case, I get an empty object. What am I missing?
I need to parse third-party XML files. I believe it's ADO XML:
http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/XML/Displaying-ADO-Retrieved-Data-with-XML-Islands/2/
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Álvaro G. Vicario
> I've spent an hour trying to make SimpleXML work until I realized the
> problem seems to be namespaces. This code:
>
> <?php
> $xml = simplexml_load_file('foo.xml');
> print_r($xml);
> ?>
>
> works fine, unless the XML file contains tags with colons, e.g.:
>
> <rs:data>
>
> In this case, I get an empty object. What am I missing?
For the records: I finally discarded SimpleXML. It's only simple when
you don't have namespaces.
I tried the XMLReader extension with sample code taken from a user
note in the PHP manual and I got it working in a few minutes, although
the code is not intuitive at all. I also tried the DOM extension and
the results were similar, but the code was slightly more intuitive.
Finally, I found a PHP port of JavaScript's jQuery library: phpQuery
[1]. I parsed my XML with a few lines of code and I can even
understand them :) Using such library is probably an overkill but it
was quick and easy.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/