Comments on: SimpleXML and namespaces

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:48:35 +0000

Great article. I have been trying to get a value from a node with a namespace for quite some time now and couldn’t quite figure it out.

Thanks.

By: Crashdaddy

Crashdaddy — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:29:00 +0000

That’s definitely dugg. Thank you!

By: whatever

whatever — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:31:11 +0000

is there a way to escape “” in xml file only. I want those characters to be recognized in html though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:23:07 +0000

SimpleXML and namespaces are sooo gay. This should be handled the same as non-namespaced attributes.

By: greg bass

greg bass — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:53:53 +0000

Kevin,
Thank you for this article. I bought the book previously and this missing topic is just what I’m stuck on. If you could indulge my ignorance, I am still stuck on how to parse multiple namespace items with multiple attributes on the same level. I am trying to parse the yahoo weather rss feed:

…

…

…

how do I get to sunrise for instance? $sunrise = ?
Thanks!

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:52:07 +0000

Anonymous,

Sure — just use the getNamespaces method: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-element-getNamespaces.php

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:33:09 +0000

Is there any way to (automatically) get the xmlns:dc URL from the code? I’d like to find the URI in code, but all examples have it hard-coded.

By: joeblow

joeblow — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 19:23:01 +0000

Is there any way to see what is contained in the buffer for $channel_itunes in the above example. I have tried the Zend debugger but is just states “Object of: SimpleXMLElement” and print_r gives me an empty SimpleXMLElement Object. If I could see the data that was contained in the buffer, I would be able to more accurately troubleshoot problems I was having without guessing as I am now.

Thanks.

By: joeblow

joeblow — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:07:41 +0000

I actually figured out the solution using your documentation and some experimentation.

foreach($rss->channel as $channel)
{
$channel_itunes = $channel->children(’http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd’);
$image_items = $channel_itunes->attributes();
$image = $image_items[’href’];
}

By: Kevin Yank

Kevin Yank — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:06:41 +0000

joeblow,

Could you post your code sample again and escape your special characters (e.g. <)?